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Demand policy action in favour of healthy food industry: Swinburn

29 July 2020
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Wednesday 29 July 2020, 03:45 AM
Boyd Swinburn Auckland Uni
Health professionals should be lobbying for policies to reduce life-shortening junk food and create a more sustainable and healthy food industry, says
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