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Yach et al. Globalization and Health 2010, 6:10 /content/6/1/10 R E V I E W Open Access Review The role and challenges of the food industry in addressing chronic disease 1 2 3 4 5 6 Derek Yach* , Mehmood Khan , Dondeena Bradley , Rob Hargrove , Stephen Kehoe and George Mensah Summary Increasingly, food companies play an important role in stemming the rising burden of nutrition-related chronic diseases. Concrete actions taken by these companies include global public commitments to address food reformulation, consumer information, responsible marketing, promotion of healthy lifestyles, and public-private partnerships. These actions are reviewed together with eleven specific PepsiCo goals and commitments that address products, the marketplace, and communities at large. Interim progress on these goals and commitments are discussed as well as constraints hampering faster progress. Further disease prevention depends on increasing implementation of private-public initiatives. Introduction Throughout, it is argued that further progress in chronic The rising global burden of nutrition-related diseases[1] disease prevention depends on collaborations across mul- calls for concerted action. There is an emerging urgent tiple sectors, from agriculture to retailers and private to need to resolve acute and chronic hunger, malnutrition, public, for effective development and distribution of and undernutrition[2]. In particular, compromised nutri- packaged food. tional status of mothers and children very early in life has significant impact