(Tuesday 9th September) Responding to the Access to Nutrition Initiative report on health reporting standards published today, Thomas Abrams, Co-Head of Health at ShareAction, said:

“Poor diets drive one in five deaths globally. Yet, the world’s biggest food manufacturers, who have a huge influence on the food we all eat, continue to make excuses as to why they can’t do more on health.

We welcome the findings of this new report: there are no more excuses for companies who fail to be transparent. We now have clear consensus amongst businesses, investors and scientists over standards for defining what can be counted as healthy.

We strongly urge food and drinks makers to use at least one of the three nutrient profile models recommended in the report to provide clarity to the public and investors on how healthy their products are, and how heavily dependent they are on the sales of less healthy products – or even better use all three like Unilever does.”