Doctors Seek Ban on Junk Food Ads
Submitted by Sheldon Rampton on
The American Academy of Pediatrics has become the latest organisation to call for a ban on the advertising of junk food during children's television programs.
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New York City Becomes First Big City to Ban Trans Fats
Submitted by Jonathan Rosenblum on
Bucking intense restaurant industry opposition, New York City has banned all added trans fats in restaurant food. The ban was passed by the city's Board of Health on December 6, 2006, and takes effect in July 2007. Donut makers get a one-year reprieve in order to find a substitute oil for the deep-fried dough. The board's action also included a requirement that restaurant chains post nutritional information.
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It's Flacks v. Flacks Over Junk Food Marketing "Reform"
Submitted by Jonathan Rosenblum on
"This was spin, and [the food industry] will have to get beyond that and make real changes or they'll get beat up again very soon." Perhaps a line from a nutritionist slamming the Better Business Bureaus' weak new voluntary restrictions on junk food marketing to kids? Instead, it's the president of MGP & Associates Public Relations, Mike Paul.
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Sugary Deals Tempt Health Care Charities
Submitted by Jonathan Rosenblum on
Public health charities are under intense pressure from potential or ongoing commercial sponsors to boost their budgets with product promotion schemes. For example, the American Diabetes Association (ADA) currently has a $1.5 million sponsorship deal with Cadbury Schweppes, maker of Dr. Pepper and the Cadbury Creme egg.
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Fast Food Nation Interview: Eric Schlosser On Obesity, Kids, and Fast Food PR
When PR Watch most recently caught a cell phone signal from Eric Schlosser, author of Fast Food Nation and the new Chew on This: Everything You Don't Want to Know About Fast Food, Schlosser was rushing from car to car in New York City, after London, which was just after Berkeley, where he was giving students a preview of the indie film version of "Fas
Why Did KFC Cross the Road? (Because PR Was On The Other Side)
Submitted by Jonathan Rosenblum on
When KFC crowed on October 30, 2006, that it was planning to ban transfats in its U.S. fried chicken, the company had a PR machine behind it ready to score a news hit in one of the nation's fast food capitals, New York City.
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Restaurant Industry Can't Stop Trans Fat Grease Fire
Submitted by Jonathan Rosenblum on
New York City, with the support of Republican Mayor Michael Bloomberg, aggressively is moving forward to ban trans fats from restaurants--the stuff that says “hydrogenated” before the word oil in fast foods, snacks and many other processed and restaurant foods. Other cities are contemplating similar action.
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Disney's Healthy Food Marketing Plan a Fantasia?
Submitted by Jonathan Rosenblum on
On the very day that Walt Disney Company announced that it would limit future food marketing deals to brands that provide healthy food products to kids, there was Kellogg's sugar-crazy Tony the Tiger (again) welcoming kids to Disney's website. Is the company, then, not "Greeeaat!" for its plan to limit calories, fat, saturated fat and added sugars to any product the Disney name promotes?
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New Zealand Police End McDonald's School Marketing Program
Submitted by Bob Burton on
New Zealand Police have terminated McDonald's sponsorship of a road safety program in schools and pre-schools because it was inconsistent with their policy banning corporate sponsorship.
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Front Group's Fake Blog Just One of Wal-Mart's Recent Woes
Submitted by Diane Farsetta on
Richard Edelman, the CEO of the Edelman PR firm, "issued an apology for his agency's role in creating a blog for client Wal-Mart that did not properly disclose its origins or funding," notes PR Week.
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