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11 top companies reaffirm advertising to kids policy
Eleven of the country’s biggest food and drink companies pledged to adopt new rules limiting advertising to children under the age of 12 – just hours ahead of a...
CARU, 10 food companies announce huge changes in marketing to children
The Council of Better Business Bureaus (CBBB) and the National Advertising Review Council (NARC) last month announced two developments regarding advertising to children.
CARU raises hackles by tightening children's advertising rules
The food industry is facing some aggressive new advertising rules from the Children’s Advertising Review Board, the very group that was supposed to save it from...
Food marketers' self-regulation called a failure
The food industry effort at self-regulation "is a 30-year experiment that has utterly failed," the Center for Informed Choices charged in a filing with the Federal...
Groups use consumer protection laws to sue Kellogg, Viacom
Two consumer activist groups on Jan. 18 announced an unusual new legal approach in their campaign to stop junk-food ads on kids' television programs.They will use...
General Mills sells Pop Secret brand for $190 million
General Mills Inc. is selling its Pop Secret microwave popcorn business to Diamond Foods Inc. for about $190 million cash.
Children-and-food study slams food marketers
A government report issued Dec. 6 that accuses food marketers of using billions in marketing dollars to woo children away from good diet choices could become a...
AIV Microbiology's Paul Hall Receives 2009 NCFST Award for Food Safety
The National Center for Food Safety and Technology (NCFST), Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT), presented its 2009 NCFST Food Safety Award to Paul A. Hall, PhD,...
Food industry struggling to reach 'holy grail' of nutrition plus convenience
After nearly a decade of grappling with the need for more-healthful offerings, food-industry executives at the Grocery Manufacturers Association’s first Future of...
CSPI asks FDA ban on food dyes
The Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI) on June 2 petitioned the FDA to ban several food dyes, alleging a link between them and hyperactivity and...
