Fig. 3
The baby food industry’s global influence network of trade associations and other corporate-funded influence organizations, with lines representing membership. Notes: See Table S1 for the full list of organization names and abbreviations; initial ‘seed’ data were sourced from membership disclosures listed on company websites and additional membership data then sourced from organization websites, further snowballing until no new data were generated. We recorded ‘membership’ as reported on websites at the time of data collection, and hence this data may not represent actual membership at the time of publication. As an example, RFC listed membership in 12 infant nutrition associations, 27 dairy associations, 21 food and beverage associations, five advertising associations, 19 business associations, 11 ‘other’ associations, and 14 collaborations and partnerships [95]. The size of the circles is proportionate to the number of ‘ties’ the organization has with others in the network; the white circles represent corporations in the baby food industry; the red circles and lines show Big Formula’s network of infant nutrition associations; yellow circles represent branding and advertising associations; green circles represent food, beverage and grocery manufacturers associations; brown circles represent general industry trade associations, for example chambers of commerce; light blue circles represent dairy industry trade associations; purple circles represent consumer information and industry-funded scientific organizations. This graph was generated using Gephi version 0.9.2 (Association Gephi)