Food industry

The food industry comprises the companies engaged in manufacturing, distribution, import and sale of food.

Industrial robots packing bread in a factory in Germany.

Example of an ultra-processed and highly caloric industrial snack.

Quotes about the food industry

• The food industry’s playbook is familiar from the strategies of tobacco and climate-change denial over the past four decades. Yet it is poorly understood, and ignored by some media and academic journals in the field. It relies [...] on repeated use of the same set of techniques. Cast doubt on unhelpful science; fund more favourable, skewed science; offer gifts and consultancies; sponsor professional bodies; and use front groups posing as independent institutes. Finally, promote personal responsibility and self regulation rather than government intervention; capture advisory committees; and challenge regulation in court.
  • Felicity Lawrence, "Rotten meat and bottled formaldehyde: fighting for food safety", Nature, volume 562, 15 October 2018.

See also

• Food
• Industry

External links

• Encyclopedic article on Food industry on Wikipedia
• Media related to Food industry on Wikimedia Commons