Industry Alerts
The ultra-processed food and beverage industry constantly and creatively finds new ways to influence government—and consumers of all ages—into helping them ensure their unhealthy products remain at the top of the food and production chain worldwide. The Global Advocacy Health Incubator creates industry alerts for the civil society organization working tirelessly to prevent this and to offer the latest insights to bolster global advocacy.
- Industry Alert 2023 No. 1
Corporate Narratives Work to Defeat and Weaken Taxation of Ultra-Processed Products
The ultra-processed product industry fights aggressively to protect its profits by blocking positive public-health measures like taxes. This alert helps equip civil society organizations with strategies to anticipate industry behavior and protect tax policies from vested interests.
You can download this alert in English here.
- Industry Alert 2022 No. 2
Unhealthy Ultra-Processed Foods and Beverages: Insidious Marketing to Children
The ultra-processed food and beverage product industry uses advertising, promotion and sponsorship tactics to harmfully attract children. This alert provides a deep dive into predatory commercial practices used around the world—and how civil society organizations can identify them in advocating for healthier and safer food policies and regulations.
You can download this alert in English, Spanish and Portuguese.
- Industry Alert 2022 No. 1
Marketing of Unhealthy Ultra-Processed Foods and Drinks: A Key Driver of Corporate Diets
Ultra-processed product marketing seeks to generate consumer engagement using compelling appeals through oftentimes aggressive, or deceptive tactics. Ultimately, this influences our food behavior and dietary practices. This alert provides an overview of marketing practices that generally promote brand loyalty via subtle modes and messages so that companies make sure consumers’ perception is positive and advantageous to their businesses.
You can download this alert in English, Spanish and Portuguese.
- Industry Alert August 2021
Global Industry Tactics to Weaken Front-of-Package Labeling Policies
There’s been a growing trend to implement mandatory front-of-package labeling (FOPL) regulations on ultra-processed products (UPPs) in many countries. But despite these efforts, Industry still interferes. This alert equips healthy food policy advocates with information on the latest food industry tactics to undermine and lack of healthy food policies around the world. It also creates key recommendations for advocates on how to mitigate these efforts.
You can download this alert in English, Spanish and Portuguese.
- Industry Alert June 2021
Industry Narratives: How Ultra-Processed Food and Beverage Companies Undermine Healthy Food Policies to Protect Their Corporate Image
The “industry narratives” refers to the set of messages, arguments, discourses and actions that impact perceptions of the food and beverage industry. This alert provides civil society organizations with a better understanding of what industry narratives look like, so advocates are better equipped.
You can download this alert in English, Spanish and Portuguese.
- Industry Alert April 2021
Global Industry Tactics to Weaken Front-of-Package Warning Label Policies
In countries where front-of-package labeling policy is being formulated, industry is attempting to weaken the policy by proposing less restrictive policies and systems. This alert sheds some light on the tactics industry is employing to undermine healthy food policies so advocates can anticipate these actions.
You can download this alert in English, Spanish and Portuguese.
Policy Briefs
The Global Health Advocacy Incubator used Policy Briefs to summarize and inform key components of legislation that is relevant for civil society organizations advocating for healthy and safe foods.
- Policy Brief: Industry Interference in Food Policy
Industry deploys a wide range of tactics, practices and arguments to weaken or prevent progress in healthy food policies all around the world. This policy brief explores the most common industry interference tactics and actions by the food and beverage industry.
You can download this policy brief in English, Spanish and Portuguese.
Reports
Our reports provide in-depth reporting on civil society organizations the tools to having a broad landscape of key happenings in regards to—and the large scale issues that are created by—the ultra-processed food and beverage industry
- Report: Marketing Exposed: A Global Public Health Threat for Food Policy
Ultra-processed product marketers saturate the marketplace with junk food products through tactics that are aggressive and insidious. This report shows how this marketing threatens public health by decreasing state action to regulate food environments.
You can either download the pdf or visit the website—where you can download the report in various languages or watch the webinar with experts delving in deeper.
- Report: Behind the Labels: Big Food’s War on Healthy Food Policies
Front-of-package labeling (FOPL) regulations represent a key public health measure to promote healthier food environments. However, the ultra-processed product industry has recently shifted to weakening FOPL standards and requirements. This report provides recommendations for advocates and civil society organizations who are confronting the ultra-processed product industry’s misleading practices.
You can either download the pdf or visit the website—where you can download the report in various languages or watch the webinar with experts delving in deeper.
- Report: Facing Two Pandemics: How Big Food Undermined Public Health in the Era of COVID-19
During the initial onslaught of the COVID-19 pandemic, ultra-processed product companies capitalized on the opportunity to promote their foods to especially vulnerable populations around the world. This report reveals how the lack of healthy food regulations worldwide enabled industry to influence policy and put disadvantaged people at great risk.
You can visit the website—where you can download the report in various languages—here.
