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Certain types of porridge, crumpets and breakfast cereals are included in a list of products that fall under a new junk food advertising ban. The government says the legislation, which applies to ...
Brands that make unhealthy foods will be able to get round the government's junk food advertising ban if their adverts don't show products that break the rules. From October 2025, foods that are ...
Comedian Ed Gamble has been ordered to change a subway station poster campaign for his new standup show because the image of a hot dog violated the transit network’s ban on junk food advertising.
Similar restrictions were imposed by the committee in December 2016, when CAP announced it had extended the broadcast ban on banning junk food ads to digital media, stopping the advertising of "high fat, salt or sugar food or drink products" in media where more than 25% of the audience was under 16.
One of the main areas where fast food companies face regulation is the advertising of "junk food" to children. In the United Kingdom, the Children's Food Bill is intended to highly regulate the advertising of such food aimed at children. [10] Many other countries are looking to introduce strict limitations on fast food advertising as well.
Junk food can be defined through nutrient profiling. The United Kingdom's Advertising Standards Authority, the self-regulatory agency for the UK ad industry, takes this approach. Foods are scored for "A" nutrients (energy, saturated fat, total sugar, and sodium) and "C" nutrients (fruit, vegetable, and nut content, fiber, and protein).
Researchers claim the advertising policy, which has been in place since 2019, could save the NHS more than £200 million. Transport for London junk food ad restrictions ‘have led to fewer ...
1 October – A ban on junk food advertising on British television before 9.00pm is scheduled to come into force. [91] The United Kingdom is set to retire its part of the global circuit-switched public switched telephone network this year. [92] [93]