10 Dec 2004
for Ofcom to become more interventionist - particularly where alcohol ads and food ads targeting children ...
03 Dec 2004
| by Our Parliamentary correspondent
accounts if they work for food and drink companies that advertise to children....John Reid, the health secretary, proposed the move as the Government drew up plans to curb junk-food ads aimed at children.
But he has backed down after being warned by his civil servants ...
on the advice of civil servants. Instead, he proposed a voluntary code including a 9pm watershed for junk-food ...
03 Dec 2004
The US Food and Drug Administration has written to Pfizer, the manufacturer of Viagra, asking
03 Dec 2004
sentimentalisation.
While other cultures see animals as an important part of nature, and of the food chain, we ...
or psychologically healthy is another matter.
"Take the issue of food," he says. "Most cultures are quite open ...
letters and calling wildcat strikes, that is.
FOOD STANDARDS AGENCY - Sid the Slug
Apparently, our ...
26 Nov 2004
, advertising restrictions will attempt to prevent them hearing about a wide range of food products.
Last week ...
for unhealthy foods in children's programming will become impossible, there will be loopholes and legitimate ...
will have to reboot their approach to marketing fatty foods and media strategists will have to devise new ...
26 Nov 2004
to ban junk food posters near schools.
26 Nov 2004
| by Rachel Gardner
with measures including the clearer labelling of food and the banning of smoking in public, the paper also proposes dramatic changes to the way "junk food" is promoted to young people.
Although the paper does not go as far as a total ban on ads for junk food - defined as being high in fat, sugar or salt - it does ...
19 Nov 2004
| by Our Parliamentary correspondent
The White Paper proposals to curb junk-food advertising to children will see television adspend...The Government's curbs on junk-food advertising, announced this week, will be wider than expected ...
commercials for junk food aimed at children before the 9pm watershed and on the use of celebrities and cartoon ...
.
The Government backed away from an immediate ban on junk-food ads after differences among ministers over whether ...
19 Nov 2004
| by Claire Beale, claire.beale@haynet.com
For the past year or so the raging debate about the advertising of so-called junk foods...serving food.
Much of it, too, is couched in relatively passive language, with an emphasis on proposals and encouragement, rather than edicts and law. Even the issue of TV advertising of junk food stops short ...
, the very threat of a ban on all junk food advertising before the 9pm watershed is farcical. It's farcical ...
12 Nov 2004
The news that the European Commission is running the rule over WPP's recent acquisition of Grey should come as no surprise. These things are a formality in big takeovers, and the deal looks set to be nodded through in the US. However, the size of WPP's media operations in Europe now that MediaCom is...