Irene van den Berg (editor until October 2025)

Irene van den Berg (1978) has been an independent journalist since 2006. For The Investigative Desk, she works on research into the food and tobacco industry. She wrote several stories about the influence of the food industry on science and education. Her work has previously been published in Vrij Nederland, NRC, AD and OneWorld.

Publications

Taste of temptation

Food manufacturers earn from our propensity to eat unhealthily, and we pay with our health. With clever tricks, copied from the tobacco industry, they

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