Big U.S. food, drink cos to limit child ads: reports
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Some of America's largest food and drink companies, such as Coca-Cola Co. and General Mills Inc., will adopt stricter controls on advertising aimed at children under 12, according to media reports on Wednesday.
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Kraft Foods Inc. on Wednesday said it would stop advertising products like Oreo cookies and Kool-Aid beverages to children younger than 12 as it works to deflect criticism that such foods contribute to childhood obesity.
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Kellogg Co. said on Thursday that it would change the way it markets food to children and only promote products that meet certain nutritional standards for sugar, fat and sodium, fending off threatened litigation.
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Kellogg Co. said on Thursday that it would change the way it markets food to children and only promote products that meet certain nutritional standards, fending off threatened litigation.
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Despite rules banning the advertising of unhealthy food online, some brands are bending the rules, research suggests.
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Britain will announce plans on Tuesday  for a ban on smoking in many public places and a crackdown on  television advertising of "junk food" aimed at children.
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Ads marketing sweet alcoholic drinks have lured alarming numbers teen drinkers especially girls, reported the American Medical Association (AMA) on Thursday.
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The European Union wants firms to stop advertising junk food to children and to make food labelling clearer, the FT says.
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WASHINGTON -- Parents may be left with only love and lots of liquid to give their sniffling babies and toddlers now that the government is declaring over-the-counter cough and cold medicines too risky for tots. The Food and Drug Administration was issuing that warning Thursday to parents of children...
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Â· Alcohol Concern calls for watershed on commercials Â· Report says publicity sways children's intake
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Ministers will order television companies this week to come up with a new set of rules to stop children being exposed to advertisements encouraging them to fill their stomachs
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Business & money: World's biggest fast food chain surprises Wall St with warning that consumers are cutting back on Big Macs
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TO fight an obesity crisis, the British government plans to ban junk food advertisements on television before 9pm. Viewership figures show that 70 per cent of children&#39;s TV viewing takes place between 6pm and 9pm.
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Self-regulation in food and beverage  marketing is being exploited and is failing to curb childhood  obesity, research by a global obesity taskforce presented on  Tuesday has found.
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Repealing limits on Sunday sales of alcohol may lead to more alcohol-related traffic accidents and even deaths, U.S. researchers said on Tuesday.
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Fast-food chain Burger King Holdings Inc said on Tuesday that, beginning late next year, it will limit advertising aimed at children younger than 12 to food and drinks that meet strict nutritional guidelines.
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The cereal giant wants to limit its marketing of less-than-nutritious fare to children.