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”, …
The objective of the study was to assess the impact of direct to consumer advertising of prescription drugs in the United States on Canadian prescribing rates for three heavily marketed drugs—etanercept, mometasone, and tegaserod. Original Source
The Infant Milk Substitutes, Feeding Bottles and Infant Foods (Regulation of Production, Supply and Distribution) Act, 1992 attempted to curb the efforts of baby food manufacturers to undermine breastfeeding and was further amended in 2003 to plug loopholes. However, public-private health partnerships are now found to be advocating nutrition policies …
As a parent you might have wanted your child to be "a complan boy". But have you ever wondered whether the large number of nutrients printed on the labels of these 'health foods' are actually present in them? According to experts, most of these tall claims made by packed foods …
Melody Petersen covered the pharmaceutical beat for The New York Times for four years. In 1997, her investigative reporting won a Gerald Loeb Award, one of the highest honors in business journalism. She is the author of Our Daily Meds: How the Pharmaceutical Companies Transformed Themselves into Slick Marketing Machines …
Those who say that advertisements have little role in luring people to smoking need to think again. A recent Indo- us study, conducted on 11,642 sixth and eighth graders in Delhi and Tamil Nadu found that nearly 50 per cent of the kids had seen and remembered a tobacco advertisement. …
do we deserve what we are shown on television? Or: how are tv programms created? The answer goes at least two ways. There is the intuitive route: what a journalist
The past 4 years has seen several legislative developments to tackle Europe's growing obesity problem including food labelling, controls on junk-food advertising to children, and bans on fizzy drinks in school vending machines. But critics say they are not enough.
>> The Spanish police have arrested five hackers they describe as being among the most active on the Internet. The hackers, who include two 16-year-olds, are accused of disrupting government websites in the US, Asia and Latin America. Police say they co-ordinated attacks over the Internet and hacked into 21,000 …
