Jeremy Beadles, chief executive of the Wine & Spirit Trade Association, has said the new Alcohol Health Alliance, officially launched today, calling for tougher measures to curb the level of drinking in the UK is "mis-directed".
Membership of the Alcohol Health Alliance UK includes:
Academy of Medical Royal Colleges
Action on Addiction
Alcohol and Health Research Trust
Alcohol Concern
Alcohol Education and Research Council
British Association for the Study of the Liver British Liver Trust
British Society of Gastroenterology College of Emergency Medicine Faculty of Dental Surgery
Faculty of Occupational Medicine
Faculty of Public Health Institute of Alcohol Studies
Medical Council on Alcohol National Addiction Centre
National Organisation on Fetal Alcohol Syndrome
UK Royal College of General Practitioners
Royal College of Nursing
Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh
Royal College of Physicians of London
Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow
Royal College of Psychiatrists
Royal College of Surgeons of England
Scottish Intercollegiate Group on Alcohol/SHAAP