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Access to Nutrition Foundation sizes up nutrition access of top US food companies

By Mary Ellen Shoup

26-Nov-2018 Last updated on 26-Nov-2018 at 17:11 GMT

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The top 10 packaged food companies (based on revenue) in the US can be doing more to improve their corporate nutrition strategies and reporting as well as extending access to healthy and affordable products, according to the US Access to Nutrition Index, published by the Access to Nutrition Foundation (ATNF).

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