Here's the original report [0]. The writers are SACN and COT. If someone from UK could confirm their reputation, I don't know them but a quick search doesn't inspire confidence:

> At least 11 of the 17 members of the Scientific Advisory Committee on Nutrition (SACN) have ties to companies including Nestle and the world’s largest ice cream producer, Unilever. [1]

> More than half the members of the Committee on Toxicology have recent links to the food and chemicals industries and last year it disagreed with the European regulator’s proposal to cut the safe level of BPA [1]

Seems a shame they're paid by public found

0: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/plant-based-drink...

1: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-13838681/nutritio...

2. https://www.bbc.co.uk/contact/ecu/panorama-ultra-processed-f...