Junk food giants must stop marketing to children - or see their ads banned entirely, says health chief

Junk food giants must stop marketing to children - or see their ads banned entirely, says health chief Junk food firms must stop marketing their products to children - or face a total advertising ban, health chiefs have said.

The World Health Organisation (WHO) said food giants are exploiting loopholes in regulations to bombard children with adverts on YouTube and Facebook.

And one of Public Health England’s advisers called for the rules to be redrawn - with advertisements for fatty and sugary foods banned entirely if children were found to be being exposed to them. The Daily Telegraph

See also:

• Monitoring and restricting digital marketing of unhealthy products to children and adolescents (2019) World Health Organization
• Junk food companies target children by using a loophole in advertising regulations, experts warn The Daily Mail
• Children face growing deluge of junk food ads online, public health experts warn The Daily Telegraph