All HFSS articles – Page 44
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Comment and OpinionCritical Eye... on Heston's 70s sophistry
Heston Blumenthal’s gastronomic sophistry has always left me cold, and after subjecting myself to an early episode of the pug-faced one’s latest series, I’d gone out of my way to avoid subsequent offerings.
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Review of the Year 2008
At the start of the year, we said 2008 would be all about the credit crunch. We were right, only it was a crunch far worse than we - or any one else for that matter - had dared predict. As the global banking system reached near-meltdown, no-one in...
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The third man
Nick Clegg's views on food policy have firmer foundations than he has been given credit for, Liz Hamson reports
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Ad watershed Bill blasted as unnecessary and irrelevant
It is too early to consider extending the watershed on the ban on advertising 'junk food' to kids, experts have warned, ahead of a Second Reading this month of a Private Member's Bill calling for it to be changed to 9pm.Food and Drink...
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Cereal and dairy set for EU nutrient profiling reprieve
Pressure is mounting on the FSA to overhaul its Nutrient Profiling Model after the European Food Safety Authority told Brussels it believed an EU-wide model could exempt - or make special conditions for - HFSS foods that play a key role in the...
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Special case plea for gum
The panel reviewing the Food Standards Agency's Nutrient Profiling Model could give chewing gum an extraordinary exemption from the flawed tool, which underpins Ofcom's ban on advertising junk food to kids. The model rates all foods on the basis of...
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Lords' pre-9pm ad ban call is jumping the gun says DH
The government has distanced itself from a call by the Department of Health's chief whip to introduce a pre-9pm ban on the advertising of junk food.In a House of Lords debate on obesity, Baroness Royall of Blaisdon was asked by...
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The 10 LAST christmas AD campaigns?
The indulgence of the Christmas season approaches, but an air of potential gloom hangs over this year's big food and retail advertising campaigns. Maybe for the last time retailers and brand owners are spending the countdown to Christmas...
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Obesity: industry braced for tough government measures
The government is planning to make a major announcement on how it is to tackle the rising rate of obesity in the UK, The Grocer has learned.It is gearing up to respond to the Foresight report, which claimed 50% of the British population...
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What the papers said - 17th November 2007
Supermarkets sell beer at a lower price than bottled water and risk fuelling the binge-drinking crisis, according to the Telegraph. The paper said that Tesco, Sainsbury's and Asda were selling lager at 22p a can, significantly less per pint than...
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young, fit and boxing clever
Depending on which way you look at it, it's either been a good year for Cadbury's brands - or a disastrous one. Rocked by the salmonella incident and the demonisation of HFSS foods by the obesity police, Dairy Milk has seen its brand...
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What the papers said - 20th October 2007
? The ban on advertising HFSS foods to children could be extended so such products couldn't be promoted during adult programmes such as The X Factor and Dancing On Ice, according to The Sun. The paper claimed Health Secretary Alan Johnson would...
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Marketers Make mostof evolution
The marketing industry has been faced with challenges at every turn this year. Ofcom's ban on the advertising of HFSS foods to kids has sparked a complete overhaul of the way the industry advertises many well-loved brands. And the unpredictable...
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Has the IndustrY done Enough?
HG Wells once described advertising as legalised lying. It's a view that lobby groups against the food and drink industry share. It tricks kids into eating sugary, salty, fatty foods, they say, and has caused an obesity crisis....
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The NPM is 'little better than a crude calorie count'
As the FSA began the process of reviewing its controversial Nutrient Profiling Model this week, it was on the receiving end of more criticism. Dr Adam Drewnowski, a leading nutritionist and expert in obesity, published a peer-reviewed...
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A healthier future
Character licensing on food and drink has suffered through its association with unhealthy foods and the restrictions imposed on its use in the advertising of HFSS (high fat, salt, sugar) products to kids. According to Mintel's 2007...
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Positive moves for the dairy industry
Positive moves for the dairy industry Jim Begg Director general, Dairy UK Sir; In an industry where too often the glass is seen as half empty, it is encouraging to report...
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Nutrient profile panel told to rip up model and start again
Dairy bosses are calling on the FSA to scrap the Nutrient Profiling Model underpinning Ofcom's restrictions on advertising food to kids and target specific problem products such as sweets and crisps instead.On 20 September, an...
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Companies must curb ads to kids online or risk regulation
Food and drink companies that target children through advertising on the internet have been warned that they must self-regulate their marketing practices, or risk having regulation imposed on them. Since Ofcom's restrictions on advertising foods...
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Children's heroes face axe under new code
Manufacturers could be told to stop using cartoon characters on packs of high fat, salt and sugar foods aimed at children under a new voluntary code.The Department of Health's food and drink advertising promotion forum working group met...