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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Segoe UI";"><span tabindex="-1" style="outline: 0pt none;"><br></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Segoe UI";"><span tabindex="-1" style="outline: 0pt none;">From Leslie London <br>
</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Segoe UI";"><span tabindex="-1" style="outline: 0pt none;"><<a href="mailto:Leslie.London@uct.ac.za">Leslie.London@uct.ac.za</a>></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Segoe UI";"><span tabindex="-1" style="outline: 0pt none;"><br></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI""><span tabindex="-1" style="outline:0">I see this piece calls for action, but does not mention once
concepts of "power" or "conflict of interest."</span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI"">Yet
the whole field of non-communicable disease is inexorably bound up with
corporate profits and industry agendas.</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI"">So,
the kinds of actions we are called on to under appear rather anemic, not
mention, likely to be ineffective, if they don't challenge the fundamental
issues of power underlying "social inequalities and the conditions in
which people are born, grow, live, work and age."</span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI"">For
example, the notion that industry and community have a common interest in
reducing chronic disease is somehow implied in foregrounding the experience in Karelia, Finland,
related to improvement of diet and reducing fat and salt content of food.</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI"">Finland</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI""> is a developed country of 5
million people far removed from where large global corporates extract
their maximum profits - poor communities in poor countries.</span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI"">This
is very disappointing that this is the kind of view coming from the Department
of </span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial">Ethics, Equity,
Trade and Human Rights at WHO.</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
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