{"id":72121,"date":"2026-02-15T20:30:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-15T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/mandating-health-star-ratings-is-a-win-but-food-lobbies-still-have-too-much-power-over-our-health\/"},"modified":"2026-02-15T20:30:00","modified_gmt":"2026-02-15T15:00:00","slug":"mandating-health-star-ratings-is-a-win-but-food-lobbies-still-have-too-much-power-over-our-health","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/mandating-health-star-ratings-is-a-win-but-food-lobbies-still-have-too-much-power-over-our-health\/","title":{"rendered":"Mandating health star ratings is a win. But food lobbies still have too much power over our health"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"nqenglish-card-frame\">\n<div class=\"nqenglish-img-wrapper\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/6b2989b33a47872a13ec9c0576a49ad7d6ba8c64\/461_0_4913_3932\/master\/4913.jpg?width=1200&#038;height=630&#038;quality=85&#038;auto=format&#038;fit=crop&#038;precrop=40:21,offset-x50,offset-y0&#038;overlay-align=bottom%2Cleft&#038;overlay-width=100p&#038;overlay-base64=L2ltZy9zdGF0aWMvb3ZlcmxheXMvdGctZGVmYXVsdC5wbmc&#038;enable=upscale&#038;s=9131c1ff0060d2d88be9eeedf3137a53\" alt=\"Mandating health star ratings is a win. But food lobbies still have too much power over our health\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"480\" height=\"270\" style=\"object-fit:cover\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"nqenglish-cat lang-en\">\u090f\u0928 \u0936\u0949\u0930\u094d\u091f\u094d\u0938'<\/div>\n<div class=\"nqenglish-headline\">Mandating health star ratings is a win. But food lobbies still have too much power over our health<\/div>\n<div class=\"nqenglish-summary\">Our food environment has been built to put profit over health \u2014 Australians can\u2019t overcome that without stronger regulation and accountabilityGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastAlmost 13 years ago \u2013 and after a decade-long battle between health experts and the food industry \u2013 state and federal ministers voted to introduce a health star rating system to help consumers make healthier food choices.It was voluntary, thanks to the food industry being at the bargaining table and the decision-makers being largely food, trade and agriculture ministers (rather than health). Continue reading&#8230;<\/div>\n<div class=\"nqenglish-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/2026\/feb\/16\/mandating-health-star-ratings-is-a-win-but-food-lobbies-still-have-too-much-power-over-our-health\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Read Full Story<\/a><\/div>\n<p><span class=\"nqenglish-disclaimer\">Technically enhanced content presented under fair use in public-interest journalism.<\/span><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>N Shorts Mandating health star ratings is a win. But food lobbies still have too much power over<\/p>","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":72122,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"googlesitekit_rrm_CAowl-PACw:productID":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2149],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-shorts-en"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72121","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72121"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72121\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72122"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}