Can the food industry meet consumer advocacy groups half-way?
Do consumers really want to buy the healthier products consumer advocacy groups such as the Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI) tell us food and beverage manufacturers ought to be making?
And can the food industry meet the CSPI and other NGOs half way on reformulation and labeling initiatives so that all stakeholders can emerge as winners, including consumers?
‘Sometimes’, was probably the closest dietitians in the audience got to an answer to either of these questions at a session on the first day of FNCE where CSPI director of nutrition policy Margo Wootan locked horns with Food Directions boss Beth Johnson.
Click here to read our report on their debate.