07 Aug 2007
| by Alex Donohue
LONDON - Children as young as three prefer fast food wrapped in McDonald's packaging than unbranded...to prevent fast food companies marketing products high in fat, salt and sugar to pre-school children ...
or marketing of high-calorie, low-nutrient foods and beverages, or all marketing that is directed at young ...
food on TV to children. The ban currently covers programmes aimed at four- to nine ...
15 Mar 2011
| by John Reynolds
Some of the high street's most recognised fast-food and restaurant brands face having ...
process differs from other fast-food chains and 'menu panels' are not suitable for it. Instead ...
, or suffer because the information puts customers off their food, is uncertain.
One factor ...
28 Feb 2007
| by Alex Donohue
lifestyles, claiming that banning the fast food giant holds the key to improving people's diets....of food and not to eat any particular sort of food to excess. However, the criticism will come as a ...
ahead of Ofcom s restrictions on junk food ads, which will be introduced on April 1. McDonald s signed ...
10 Nov 2003
| by Claire Billings,
LONDON - Fast food, sugar-based drinks and snacks brands such as McDonald's, Coca-Cola and Walkers...a year by 2010, according to the report.
However, the banning of advertising by fast food, sweets ...
A ban on children's ads featuring celebrities promoting unhealthy food, which would span TV, radio ...
unveiled in the Sunday Telegraph.
The watchdog believes that pop stars should endorse healthy food ...
14 Jun 2002
| by Staff,
NEW YORK - US fast food firms, including Coca-Cola and McDonald's, are to launch a major...in the States against fast food companies for causing obesity.
It also comes as more groups call for the introduction of a "fat tax" on junk food, a move that would be strongly opposed by companies in the industry ...
backed by the International Food Information Council.
Michael Mudd, senior vice-president of corporate ...
06 Jan 2004
| by Staff,
NEW YORK - A body representing the US food industry has hit back at what it describes as 'scare...rights charity Peta and is critical of moves to penalise the fast-food industry for the obesity epidemic ...
for Consumer Freedom is backed by the fast food industry. Other campaigns it runs include moves to stop obesity lawsuits against food manufacturers and opposition to suggestions that a "fat tax" should be introduced ...
07 Nov 2005
| by by Jennifer Whitehead
LONDON - Children are being warned against eating unhealthy fast food with a new campaign showing...about what food choices they make. They direct people towards the BHF website , which has a special section devoted to the Food4Thought campaign.
The images parody fast-food menus, but instead ...
with gristle.
All the poster images carry a "censored" sign over the food, although the website contains ...
17 Apr 2009
Will last week's government announcement that fast-food and cafe chains are to start displaying...obesity. It also represents a positive and co-ordinated step forward by the
fast-food industry, which ...
to have finally got its act together and recognised
that people need information when buying food to eat ...
16 Jan 2009
| by Ed Kemp
six-months, according to the Food Standards Agency (FSA)....prove successful the FSA may even broaden its traffic light scheme which currently only applies to food ...
19 Mar 2004
| by Kate Nicholas, kate.nicholas@haynet.com
This can't be one of the most comfortable times to work in the marketing or PR department of a fast...As the 'obesity time bomb' ticks ever louder, many professionals in the food industry must feel ...
smoking as the lead killer in the US and possibly the UK, some food producers must feel that they too have ...
their health by serving fatty foods. While here in the UK, health and consumer groups are calling for a Swedish ...