New York State Bill targets predatory food marketing

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

Letter to CARU re: Kraft Heinz TV advertisements

This letter from CSPI to BBB National Programs' Children's Advertising Review Unit describes the context of a complaint filed against Kraft Heinz. On numerous occasions in late 2019, Kraft Heinz ran an advertisement for Kraft Macaroni & Cheese during children’s programming on networks such as Cartoon Network, Disney XD, and Nickelodeon in which it disparaged healthy foods, a longstanding feature of advertisements from Kraft Heinz. These ads are a violation of CARU’s guidelines on product presentations and disparagement. CSPI asks that CARU review Kraft Heinz’s advertising practices and work with the company to align their advertisements with CARU guidelines.

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).

FDA warns Joseph Mercola not to market products making fake claims to treat or prevent Covid-19

It is illegal to market vitamins or other dietary supplements as treatments or preventives for anything, let alone Covid-19.

CSPI and Rudd Center FDA Request for Enforcement re: Toddler Milks and Transition Formulas

The Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI), the UConn Rudd Center for Food Policy & Obesity, and Dr. Jennifer Pomeranz, JD, MPH, Assistant Professor, New York University, submitted this letter to urge the Food and Drug Administration to take immediate enforcement action against the marketing of misbranded products that are labeled as infant formula but are marketed for use by children over 12 months, including the products highlighted in this letter.

FDA urged to stop formula companies from selling sugary drinks as “formula” to toddlers

The Food and Drug Administration should take enforcement action against three prominent infant formula manufacturers for marketing sugary drinks to toddlers up to three years old, according to an enforcement request sent to the agency today.