FTC sign-on letter re: Food Marketing Report

The following is a sign-on letter to the Federal Trade Commission reminding the agency that Congress directed the agency to report on the marketing activities and expenditures of the food industry targeted toward children and adolescents by June 29, 2023. Particularly, Congress directed the FTC to investigate food marketing expenditures related to food and beverage marketing targeting children and adolescents of color, digital food and beverage marketing and data practices targeting children and adolescents, and food and beverage advertising on educational technology platforms.

New York State Bill targets predatory food marketing

Letter to FTC re: Request to Investigate Food Marketing to Children

CSPI and numerous other public health organizations and professionals urge the FTC to study 1. marketing expenditures by food and beverage companies to children and adolescents and 2. slotting fees, trade spend and other trade promotion practices in the retail grocery industry.

Healthy Restaurant Children’s Meals Improve Children’s Diets and Health

Restaurants and communities should support parents’ efforts to feed their children well.

Unilever’s doing better by kids. Will the rest of the industry take note?

Industry self-regulation of food marketing to kids is far from perfect, often leaving major loopholes or failing to prove effective. With its recent updates, Unilever is taking steps in the right direction.

New study reveals one way soda and beverage companies market to children

Picture a large public university you may have visited or seen play a sport on television. Can you recall seeing Gatorade merchandise dotting the sidelines? Coca-Cola vending machines across campus? Those products and merchandise are likely there because the university and beverage company signed a pouring rights contract.

Kellogg: Marketing to kids

Demand letter led to Kellogg agreeing to adopt minimum nutrition standards for marketing to children.

City of Davis, CA, takes soda off kids' menus

Parents in Davis, California, should be pleased and proud that the city council has passed an ordinance making milk or water, and not soda, the default beverages for meals intended for young children.

CSPI hits marketing junk food to kids

CSPI urges Kraft Heinz to end disparagement of healthy food in advertising

Kraft Heinz is disparaging healthy foods like broccoli, salmon, and tofu in advertising for its Kraft Macaroni & Cheese and other products—and it has done so on children’s television programming, according to a complaint filed today by the Center for Science in the Public Interest with BBB National Programs' Children’s Advertising Review Unit (CARU).