Consumer Goods Forum Pledges Changes in Food Advertising to Children and Nutrition Labeling

A consortium of more than 400 food manufacturers and retailers, the
Consumer Goods Forum, has built on a 2011 pledge to clarify nutrition
labeling and to advertise only those products fulfilling specific nutritional
criteria to children younger than 12. The new pledge further defined the
goals by setting deadlines; both reforms are to be completed by 2018, and by
2016, each member company will make its internal policies on nutrition and
product formulation available to the public. The forum’s board of directors
also established an independent scientific advisory council that will conduct a
comprehensive survey of members’ progress toward the forum’s goals.
See Consumer Goods Forum, June 18, 2014.