John Lupien

John Lupien was Director of the Food and Nutrition Division (now the Nutrition and Consumer Protection Division) ^[1], Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) in Rome from 1990-1999.

Mr. Lupien carried out his undergraduate and graduate studies at the University of Massachusetts, then joined the FDA in 1960, where he served as an investigator and compliance officer. In 1970, Mr. Lupien joined the FAO as a Nutrition officer, holding several other positions before returning to the FDA in Washington as Director of the International Affairs Staff in 1980. Mr. Lupien has been with the Food and Nutrition Division of FAO since 1986 ^[2].

In his FDA and FAO work Mr. Lupien has been involved in extensive nutrition-related policy formulation work. He has also carried out in-depth nutrition, food quality and food safety surveys and prepared and implemented nutrition-related projects in about 50 countries (ibid.).

Lupien was implicated in the covert funding by the food industry (ILSI and WSRO) of the Expert Consultation on Carbohydrates in Human Nutrition run by FAO/WHO in Rome in 1997. In 2004, a UN agency investigation, and the BBC's Panorama programme uncovered documents which revealing that the World Sugar Research Organisation and International Life Sciences Institute, both funded by the sugar industry, helped pay for the Consultation. The funding for the Consultation was approved by John Lupien ^[3].

Lupien then left the FAO to become chair of scientific advisory board of the industry-funded European Food Information Council (EUFIC).

Affiliations

• European Food Information Council chair of scientific advisory board

References

1. ^ FAO 'Interview with Louise O. Fresco, accessed 1st August 2007.
2. ^ Joint Institute for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition 'John Lupien', February 2004, accessed 5th June 2010.
3. ^ BBC News 'UN probes sugar industry claims', accessed 1st August 2007.