The right to an adequate diet: the agriculture-food-health nexus 2012, para. 41
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- States should implement fully in legislation the International Code of Marketing of Breast-milk Substitutes and subsequent WHA resolutions. But the marketing practices of the food industry have impacts such that bolder action is required. Self-regulation by the agrifood industry has proven ineffective. As noted by the International Obesity Task Force Working Group experts when they developed the Sydney Principles for reducing the commercial promotion of foods and beverages to children, industry codes cannot "substantially reduce the large volume and high impact of marketing obesogenic foods and beverages to children". It is one thing to prohibit advertising that "exploits the credulity of children," but quite another to control the amount of advertising delivered and the appeal it creates for the products, influencing children's diets. Even the best practices in the area, such as the EU Pledge initiated in December 2007 by a number of large agrifood companies, do not go as far as they should, namely, to prohibit all advertising that could encourage children to consume more HFSS foods.
- Legal status
- Non-negotiated soft law
- Body
- Special Rapporteur on the right to food
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Means of adoption
- N.A.
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Food & Nutrition
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Year
- 2012
- Paragraph type
- Other
- Reference
- SR Food, Report to the HRC (2012), A/HRC/19/59, para. 41.
- Paragraph number
- 41
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