Robert Lustig, writing for the Guardian:
The EFSA has boosted the position of the sugar industry, either through incompetence or collusion. But it is clear that this recommendation is scientifically bogus. Nutritional policy should be based on science – not pseudoscience, as we have seen over the past 30 years.
Nutritional policy is based on the same thing as any other policy: the interests of those who draft and submit policies to legislators and policymakers. By and large, that’s people with a vested interest — one that’s usually not also in the public interest.