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Children massively targeted by unhealthy food ads: consumer groups’ snapshot exposes blatant need for binding EU rules
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Food companies’ commitment to market their products responsibly blatantly fails to protect European children from ads praising unhealthy foods. That is the outcome of a snapshot survey BEUC and ten of its member organisations1 carried out in spring 2021 as part of a project initiated by Professor Amandine Garde of the University of Liverpool.2 With ample evidence that industry self-regulation of food marketing to children is not working, the consumer groups advocate for binding EU rules.
New EU health crisis authority must deliver for consumers
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Today the European Commission created a new authority (HERA - European Health Emergency Preparedness and Response Authority) to avoid some of the frailties that the COVID pandemic cruelly exposed in early 2020, when supply chains were severely disrupted and there were shortages of medicines in intensive care units and protective equipment such as masks.
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Pauline Constant, BEUC
Pauline Constant
Director, Communications
Andrew Canning, BEUC
Andrew Canning
Deputy Head of Communications
Oriana Henry
Communications Officer
Sandrine Carpentier
Communications Officer