“Public health is in a desperate state and it is getting worse," said professor Paul Clayton from Oxford University's Institute of Food Brain & Behaviour and the University of Pecs.
"We need to find a way for the industry and the regulatory sector to communicate more effectively and to work in the public’s benefit.”
Professor Clayton added: “Both the regulators and certainly the industry I think are looking at this nutrition health nexus through a prism that is monotherapeutic or oligotherapeutic at best and it is very clear that there are grotesque public health problems which are overwhelming our healthcare facilities…”