Just released: McCabe Centre and Cancer Council Victoria’s article is featured in Cancer Control 2025 on “What can tobacco control teach us about vested interests in food and nutrition?”
No country is on track to halt the rise in obesity, and food industry interference is a well-documented barrier to doing so.
In this commentary, Suzanne Zhou, Hayley Jones, Clare Slattery, Ma-Anne Rosales, and Thomas Kehoe discuss what lessons we can learn from the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control to help policymakers and public interest groups counter the power, resources, and lobbying of the food industry.
Although tobacco control cannot be used as a direct model for food regulation, a key lesson from the 20 years of the WHO FCTC’s operation is the importance of governance: asking who is given voice, influence and representation in matters of critical public policy.
Read & download the full report here: https://www.cancercontrol.info/cancer-control-2025/
See: McCabe Centre & Cancer Council Victoria’s contribution (pg. 34-38).