One of the world’s most powerful food industry lobby groups is rebranding itself to better serve its food industry funders. This comes after years of academic articles – some of them based on documents obtained by U.S. Right to Know – and adverse coverage in major news outlets made it harder for the group to do stealth lobbying and public relations work for food companies.
The International Life Sciences Institute, founded in 1978 by a Coca-Cola executive, will now call itself just by its acronym, ILSI. Yesterday, the group unveiled a new logo and new focus on “integrity,” because that seems to be the area in which their anti-public health work has been most recently successful. It is also a theme that is directly important to Coca-Cola, as we reported in a 2021 journal article.
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