Whether his department facilitated any joint meetings with food manufacturers, nutritionists and medical scientists with a view of discussing changes needed to be undertaken in food manufacturing to help stem the tide of obesity and life style diseases which are overwhelming the health system; if not, why not; if so, what agreement was reached with (a) food manufacturers that would significantly help to improve the nutritional quality and health giving properties of manufactured or processed foods and (b) nutritionists and medical scientists to evaluate manufactured and processed foods with a view of providing an easy to understand rating system that would appear on food labels?