Barack Obama

US food industry enlisted in the battle to curb obesity

23-Jun-2009 By Mike Stones

Top US nutrition experts together with health organizations and leading doctors have joined forces to ask President Barack Obama to combat obesity by creating a Presidential Commission on Healthy Weights, Healthy Lives.

US health experts urge Obama to take ‘urgent action’ on obesity

12-Jan-2009 By Caroline Scott-Thomas

A group of prominent American health professionals has issued a letter urging President-elect Barack Obama to take “bold and urgent action” to curb obesity or, they say, the current generation could be the first to live shorter lives than their parents.

Brand America boosted by Obama and melamine scare

26-Nov-2008 By Sarah Hills

The Obama effect and concerns about food safety could help boost US brands overseas which appear to be falling out of favor, according to a new report from Euromonitor International.

Round table: Food policy under Obama

07-Nov-2008

Barack Obama has pledged to bring change to his country. Three food industry executives discuss what his election could mean for food regulation and trade, and policy interplay with healthcare and energy.