The UK Advertising Standards Authority has banned a television advertisement for Philadelphia cream cheese, telling parent company Mondelēz International the ad perpetuates gender stereotypes.
Increasing regulation restricting junk food advertising leaves FMCG brands facing the question of how to balance building awareness in a restricted landscape while also being good corporate citizens.
In this edition of the Brussels Bulletin, the European Union agrees to accept 35,000 tonnes of non-hormone treated beef from the United States, EFSA questions the safety of a whipworm egg as a food supplement, and pesticide chlorphyrifos comes under the...
The UK government has been urged to introduce a levy on all processed, unhealthy foods containing ‘excessive calories’ – a move campaigners say would reduce consumption of saturated fat and sugar.
Low-income groups would be ‘disproportionately affected’ by the impact that any no-deal Brexit scenario would have on food prices and availability, Professor Tim Lang of the Centre for Food Policy, City University of London, warns.
The European Commission’s current proposals on the Common Agricultural Policy fail to support sustainable food production and demonstrate that the EU ‘lacks the will’ to meet public demand for environmentally-friendly agriculture, according to researchers.
Latest data from the United Nations reveal obesity and overweight rates are ‘increasing in all regions’. Could ‘healthy food’ subsidies and taxes on products high in saturated fat, salt, and sugar, curb the trend?
The Danish Food Agency is to increase the amount of iodine in salt in a move that looks to address a deficiency in pregnant and breastfeeding women as well as in the country’s general population.
