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(Full story doi:10 1136/bmj m3517) Public health Food and drink companies “exploit pandemic” Companies trading in alcohol, tobacco, junk foods, gambling, infant milk formula, and fossil fuels are “leveraging” the coronavirus crisis to boost their brands and influence, often to the detriment of wider public health and sustainability goals, showed research from the NCD Alliance and the SPECTRUM consortium of researchers Lucentis Companies are fined €444m for unfair marketing France’s Competition Authority fined the Swiss drug companies Novartis and Roche €444m (£404m;$526m) for abusing their dominant market position to steer eye doctors towards the wet macular degeneration treatment Lucentis (ranibizumab), which they sell jointly, at the expense of the cancer drug Avastin (bevacizumab), which is often used off label in its place and costs 30 times less Climate crisis “Include emission targets” in economic recovery UK government action to help the economy recover from the covid-19 pandemic should also help to achieve net zero carbon emissions, said Climate Assembly UK, which comprises 108 members of the public commissioned by six House of Commons select committees
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