Fast food
Policy Consultation 21 January 2005
Comment from the National Consumer Council and the British Retail Consortium.
Government warns fast food advertisers
Press Review 21 January 2005
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Brussels issues junk food warning
Press Review 20 January 2005
The food industry has only 12 months to stop advertising junk food to children and improve product labelling or face possible legislation in the European Union.
£500m school sports plan to tackle obesity
Press Review 14 December 2004
Tony Blair and culture secretary Tessa Jowell will announce proposals leading to children playing five hours of sport a week.
Health concerns over Scottish obesity
News Article 7 December 2004
Experts have gathered in Edinburgh for a major conference on childhood obesity
Food labelling
Policy Consultation 25 November 2004
Comment from the Food Standards Agency, the National Consumer Council and Which?
Reid unveils public health offensive
News Article 16 November 2004
John Reid has published his public health white paper with new measures to reduce obesity, cut smoking and crack down on binge drinking.
Obesity measures 'unlikely to be effective'
News Article 15 November 2004
The Conservatives have warned that measures set to be unveiled by the government to tackle Britain's obesity epidemic are unlikely to prove effective.
Junk food advertising
Policy Consultation 15 November 2004
Comment from the British Retail Consortium and the National Consumer Council.
Junk food ads face ban
News Article 14 November 2004
Television adverts for unhealthy food could be banned before the watershed as part of the government's new health legislation.
Ad agencies threatened with government shut-out
Press Review 1 November 2004
Advertising agencies may be excluded from government contracts if they continue to target "junk food" commercials aggressively at children.
Red light warning for junk foods
Press Review 13 October 2004
Junk food adverts on television would carry a "red light" warning and be shown only after the watershed, under proposals being considered by the government to fight obesity.
Sussing out the problem
Publication Article 8 October 2004
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Government Affairs Website
Supermarkets clash with ministers over salt levels
Press Review 13 September 2004
Britain's supermarket chains are in conflict with the government over unhealthy levels of salt in the food they sell.
