Chocolate Information Center

Funded by Mars, the Chocolate Information Center distributes favourable research on chocolate to academics, health professionals and the media. The International Food Information Council Set up in 1986 to defend to defend the sweetener aspartame from attacks, its original funders included Coca-Cola, PepsiCo, Procter & Gamble, General Foods and the NutraSweet Group. It now represents the food, beverage and agricultural industries, and its members include Nabisco, McDonald’s, Kraft Foods, Nestlé and Hershey. It lobbies for favourable food legislation and trade rules.