Comprehensive mandatory policies are needed to fully protect all children from unhealthy food marketing

• Published in: PLoS medicine Vol. 20; no. 9; p. e1004291
• Main Authors: Dillman Carpentier, Francesca R, Stoltze, Fernanda Mediano, Popkin, Barry M
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States Public Library of Science 25-09-2023; Public Library of Science (PLoS)
• Subjects: Advertising; Analysis; Beverages; Biology and Life Sciences; Child; Children; Children & youth; Children as consumers; Ecology and Environmental Sciences; Ethical aspects; Food; Food habits; Food Industry; Health aspects; Humans; Laws, regulations and rules; Marketing; Medicine and Health Sciences; Nutrition; Nutrition policy; Obesity; People and Places; Privacy; Research and Analysis Methods; Restrictions; Social Sciences; Systematic review; World Health Organization; Youth market; United States; Washington DC; Chile; United States > US; Switzerland
• ISSN: 1549-1676; 1549-1277; 1549-1676
• DOI: 10.1371/journal.pmed.1004291

The World Health Organization (WHO) have released a new guideline, "Policies to protect children from the harmful impact of food marketing" [1] which recommends the development of comprehensive laws to reduce children's exposure to unhealthy food marketing. This new guideline extends previous recommendations [2] to limit the adverse effects of unhealthy food marketing on the health of the world's children. We consider here whether these new recommendations go far enough.