[Limits of self regulation of the private food sector: the case of removing of vending machines from schools].
Conflicts of interest between the food industry and public decision makers have increasingly multiplied over the last few years, especially within the context of implementing the French National Nutrition Programme. This paper describes the rhetoric and the strategies developed by the private sector in order to counter the law's implementation and enforcement based on a concrete example, namely, the removal of vending machines from schools. After having evoked possibilities of developing new partnerships as suggested by national and international health authorities, it reaffirms the right and the duty of the State to regulate within the framework of a health promotion policy, an approach which integrates the necessary open democratic public debate between the different sectors.
Michaud
Claude
C
Université d'été francophone en santé publique, Faculté de médecine et de pharmacie, place Saint-Jacques, 25030 Besançon cedex.
Baudier
François
F
D016265:Conflict of Interest; D005509:Food Dispensers, Automatic / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D019649:Food Industry / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D005602:France; D006291:Health Policy / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D006293:Health Promotion / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence; D006801:Humans; D008119:Lobbying; D018673:Nutrition Policy / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence; D017149:Private Sector / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence; D011634:Public Health / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence; D012574:Schools / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*