Laws In Brazil That Protect Against "Big Food" And "Big Snack"
Under pressure from civil society organizations, the Brazilian government has introduced legislation to protect and improve its traditional food system, standing in contrast to the governments of many industrialized countries that have partly surrendered their prime duty to protect public health to transnational food companies, argue nutrition and public health experts writing …
July 5, 2012 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: brazilian, civil-society, food-system, improve-its, introduced-legislation, nutrition / diet, the-governments, their-prime
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Zambian Health Coalition Calls For Audit After Global Fund OIG Finds Irregularities Zambia’s Civil Society Health Forum (CSHF), a coalition of HIV/AIDS organizations, “has demanded for forensic audits in the four principal recipient (PR) organisations of the Global Fund and prosecution of officers responsible for misapplying donor funds,” the Post Online reports…
November 5, 2010 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: audit, calls, civil-society, donor-funds, health-forum, oncalldietitian.com, the-four, zambian-health