Exhibit 595

Political context of the World Health Organization: sugar industry threatens to scupper the WHO

Exhibit 595 · Journalism (reprint)

Political context of the World Health Organization: sugar industry threatens to scupper the WHO

Abstract (read): the Sugar Association demanded that Congress end funding of the WHO unless the guidelines were withdrawn, and the association and six other food industry groups asked the HHS Secretary to use his influence to get the report withdrawn.

Source: Sarah Boseley (reprint of Guardian report of 21 April 2003), International Journal of Health Services 33(4):831-833
Date: 2003
Grade: Reported
Document: https://doi.org/10.2190/U0MW-WM82-N5BH-E20C
Accessed: 2026-11-09
Cited by: Findings citing this exhibit
Note: Reported; abstract only.

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Finding AGR-2.9: Reported The 2003 WHO/FAO report on diet and chronic disease set a population goal of under 10 percent of energy from free sugars and described that goal as controversial. In March and April 2003, according to AP, CSPI and the Guardian, the Sugar Association's president wrote to WHO that the association would ask Congress to challenge U.S. funding, a food-industry coalition asked HHS Secretary Tommy Thompson to intervene on 20 March, and Senators Larry Craig (R-ID) and John Breaux (D-LA) made a further request to Thompson on 28 March. AP also reports that the senators wrote Agriculture Secretary Ann Veneman.