Coca-Cola's chief scientific and regulatory officer stepping down

New York

COCA-COLA'S top scientist is stepping down following revelations that the beverage giant initiated a strategy of funding scientific research that played down the role of Coke products in the spread of obesity.

Rhona S Applebaum, Coke's chief science and health officer, helped orchestrate the establishment of a non-profit group known as the Global Energy Balance Network.