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. 2020 Apr 29;62(3):313-318.
doi: 10.21149/11291. Epub 2020 May 8.

[Nutricia Code: nutrition and conflict of interest in academia]

[Article in Spanish]
Simon Barquera  1 , Nydia Balderas  1 , Estefanía Rodríguez  1 , Martha Kaufer-Horwitz  2 , Otilia Perichart  3 , Juan A Rivera-Dommarco  1 ; Grupo de profesionales e investigadores Código Nutricia
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[Nutricia Code: nutrition and conflict of interest in academia]

[Article in Spanish]
Simon Barquera et al. Salud Publica Mex. .

Abstract
in English, Spanish

To combat malnutrition in all its forms, actions must be integrated from society as a whole. The main interest of the actors involved in these actions should be health. However, there are actors with conflict of interest that interfere in the design, planning, implementation and monitoring of public health nutrition policies. In order to mitigate the adverse effect that result from these conflicts, from evidence generation to the design and implementation of policies, this Code is proposed. It invites the nutrition and health community to adopt it, promote it and subscribe it, and to favor the advancement of actions and policies without industry interference to address the problem of malnutrition.

Para combatir la mala nutrición en todas sus formas es necesario integrar acciones desde la sociedad en su conjunto. El interés superior de los actores involucrados en generar estas acciones debe ser la salud. No obstante, existen actores con conflictos de interés que interfieren en el diseño, planeación, implementación y monitoreo de las políticas derivadas de dichas acciones. A fin de mitigar el efecto adverso que generan estos conflictos desde la etapa de generación de evidencia hasta el diseño e implementación de las políticas, se propone este código. Se invita a la comunidad de nutrición y salud a adoptarlo, promoverlo y sumarse al mismo, para favorecer el avance de las acciones y políticas necesarias sin interferencia de la industria y resolver el problema de la mala nutrición.

Keywords: conflict of interest; food industry; malnutrition; nutrition; obesity; policies.

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