Hearing of transnational food corporations like Nestlé funding health research in African countries should raise a few red flags. One has to question how it works exactly if researchers are getting bags of money from a company to afford the ins and outs of rigorous health research when that same company happens to sell sweets and chocolate.
Those advising governments and charities on dietary policy warn how “current or past financial or personal associations with interested parties make it difficult to distinguish subtle, unconscious bias from deliberately concealed impropriety.” Other research found that of 168 industry-funded studies, 156 showed biased results, all in favour of industry sponsors.
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