The Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) on August 19, 2021 has issued Draft the Food Safety and Standards (Advertising & Claims) Amendment Regulations, 2021 to further amend the Food Safety and Standards (Advertising & Claims) Regulations, 2018. In Schedule II-A which specifies “Edible Vegetable Oil and Claims”, …
South Africa’s advertising watchdog ordered oil giant Shell on July 13 to withdraw its claims in newspapers about its use of hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, to explore gas in the Karoo, a semi-desert wilderness. The Advertising Standards Authority described the adverts as “misleading”. Activist body Treasure the Karoo Action Group …
In the last week of May, passersby at Dublin’s busy Merrion road were struck at the sight of a hoarding bearing a message from one Jobless Paddy: “Save me from emigration.” The message struck an instant chord among the Irish, tens of thousands of whom are forced to migrate in …
The Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) has reconstituted its scientific panel and brought independent scientists and experts in its fold. The reconstitution was done after the Supreme Court reprimanded FSSAI, in February this year, for inducting members from the food industry in the panel, defeating it's very …
An international Deloitte report, commissioned by British American Tobacco, reveals that increasing the size of health warnings on packs and introducing graphic warnings has not directly reduced tobacco consumption – and calls into question whether plain packaging will achieve government health objectives. http://www.bat.com/group/sites/uk__3mnfen.nsf/vwPagesWebLive/DO8GHFEN/$FILE/medMD8GHFFW.pdf?openelement
Animal rights organisation PETA has written a letter to the city civic body seeking permission to put up advertisements on garbage trucks saying 'Meat Trashes the Planet.' In the letter to Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation municipal commissioner Subodh Kumar, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) has sought permission to …
Those who believe aerated drinks do nothing other than send adipose tissues into overdrive, spare a thought for the country’s excise department. An ad issued by the department on February 21 exhorted: “Drink aerated dr-inks and do social service.” It explained this unlikely way of doing social good: “Excise duty …
THE Supreme Court has directed the food regulatory body to reconstitute its scientific panels. The Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) had inducted members from the food industry, defeating its purpose of regulating that very industry. The Authority has eight scientific panels, of which seven have 18 members …
Most readers might find it difficult to credit what follows. This is a story of how bilateral and multilateral investment treaties are being used to satisfy corporate greed, how large corporations, even those in the unsavoury business of selling cigarettes, can sue countries for passing public health laws intended to …
The Kirloskar Group is all set to play God. In a TV ad the engineering company claimed it can lift lakes that stand in the way of development projects and relocate them. So all projects that earn the ire of environmental groups can hire the group’s services. The company said …
Govt wants large cigarette cos to admit that they lied to public about the dangers of smoking AP WASHINGTON The Justice Department wants the largest cigarette manufacturers to admit that they lied to the public about the dangers of smoking, forcing the industry to set up and pay for an …
Some ways usually adopted for conservation are nature reserves, biodiversity registers, pollution control measures, carbon-trading to check climate change and technologies to clean water and air. But they fail to strike at the root of modern conservation crisis: the insatiable appetite of a consumer. This appetite that defines our day-to-day …
Judgement of the Delhi High Court in the matter of Glaxosmithkline Consumer Healthcare Ltd Vs Heinz India (P) Ltd regarding a disparaging advertisement in respect of Horlicks as against Heinz‟s product Complan dated 12/11/2010.
Unless effective tobacco control is in place, most tobacco-related deaths in the coming decades are likely to be seen in low and middle income countries. Tobacco surveillance among medical students offers an opportunity to assess the preparedness for tobacco control among future health care professionals in India.
Pharmaceutical companies spent $57.5 billion on pharmaceutical promotion in the United States in 2004. The industry claims that promotion provides scientific and educational information to physicians. While some evidence indicates that promotion may adversely influence prescribing, physicians hold a wide range of views about pharmaceutical promotion. The objective of this …
The rakish oil tycoon of the American small screen, J R Ewing, is back. But in a new avatar. Larry Hagman, the actor who played the scheming Texas oilman on the long-running television show, Dallas, is reprising his role as Ewing in an advertising campaign to promote solar energy and …
IT IS difficult to escape advertisements. They are everywhere, on billboards, in mass media and on the Internet. Those who find virtue in the notion that anyone with money can promote a product to consumers and increase growth rates form the cheering brigade for ads. Then there are those who …
MAHARASHTRA’S Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has filed a chargesheet against Complan, a health drink by Heinz Indian Pvt Ltd, over its advertising claim that it can help children “grow twice as fast”. FDA’s chargesheet names seven officials of Heinz in its petition, describing the commercial as an “exaggerated advertisement …
Viveat Susan Pinto / Mumbai July 21, 2010, 1:16 IST Chocolate major Cadbury will join the group of companies which yesterday pledged they would not advertise their food & beverage products to children below 12 years. A Cadbury spokesperson said the company was committed to being part of the pledge …
Seven major food and beverage (F&B;) companies today announced a common commitment towards responsible marketing to children. The signatories include Coca-Cola, General Mills, Kellogg
Mumbai: Seven major food and beverage companies have signed a unique pledge committing themselves to responsible advertising and marketing to children. This is the first such self-regulatory pledge in India on the lines of the one in the European Union. According to people familiar with the development, companies which have …
