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May 9th, 2011
New Proposed Guidelines on Food Marketing Designed to Combat Childhood Obesity
In a groundbreaking effort to combat childhood obesity, a working group of four federal agencies (the FTC, the Food and Drug Administration, the Center for Disease Control and Prevention, and the U.S. Department of Agriculture) released for public comment a set of proposed voluntary principles. The proposed principles are designed to encourage children to choose foods that contribute to a healthful diet and to minimize the consumption of foods that could have a negative impact on health or weight.
The draft principles recommend that the food industry make significant improvements in the nutritional quality of foods marketed to children by reformulating all food products within the categories most heavily marketed directly to children in order to meet two basic nutrition principles:
- make a meaningful contribution to a healthful diet; and
- minimize the content of nutrients that could have a negative impact on health and weight.
The proposed principles will be subject to public comment for 45 days, until June 12, 2011, at which point a final report will be submitted to Congress.
If you have any questions about the proposed nutrition principles, please contact Claudine Wilson at (212) 705 4842 or cwilson@fkks.com, Jeffrey A. Greenbaum at (212) 826-5525 or jgreenbaum@fkks.com, or any other member of the Frankfurt Kurnit Advertising Group.
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