The European Commission does not see formal policy-making as the answer to Europe's obesity epidemic, despite scientists' claims that industry is betraying voluntary promises by a hard sell on bad food.
"If the EU started making policy on families and obesity it would be considered even more suspicious than policy on companies and obesity," commission health and consumer protection director Robert Madelin said on Thursday (8 June) at a Brussels debate on obesity.
The debate come...
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Andrew Rettman is EUobserver's foreign editor, writing about foreign and security issues since 2005. He is Polish, but grew up in the UK, and lives in Brussels. He has also written for The Guardian, The Times of London, and Intelligence Online.