Educational Materials And The Food Industry
EDM number 803 in 2008-09, proposed by Joan Walley on 12/02/2009.
Categorised under the topics of Food and Health education and preventive medicine.
That this House welcomes the Children's Food Campaign report Through the back door; notes with concern its findings that many organisations within the food industry are producing educational materials that promote food to children and contain incorrect and misleading nutritional information designed to be taught in schools as fact; further welcomes the condemnation of these packs by the Minister of State for Health; and calls on the Department for Children, Schools and Families to introduce stronger regulation of educational materials produced by companies and trade bodies as soon as possible.
This motion has been signed by a total of 76 MPs, 4 of these signatures have been withdrawn.
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