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Public health community and celebrities call for a stop to unhealthy food industry marketing tactics targeting children

7 Nov 2024
Food for Health Alliance’s Brands off our kids! campaign today launched an Open Letter, appealing to Australian Health Minister, the Hon Mark Butler, to introduce regulation to stop sinister marketing tactics of the processed food industry relentlessly targeting children.
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Planned new rules for baby formula marketing a win for parents & public health

22 Oct 2024
Australian public health groups have welcomed the news that the Australian Government plans to better control how infant formulas are marketed in Australia, saying that the move will help protect children’s health and prevent parent confusion.
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Australian Government urged to act as UK moves to ban junk food ads on TV and online

17 Sep 2024
Food for Health Alliance is urging the Australian Government to take swift action to protect children from unhealthy food and drink advertising. This comes after the UK announced last week that by October 2025 it will implement a ban on junk food marketing on television before 9pm and paid junk food advertising online.
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Australia must improve how our food is made, labelled & marketed: Food for Health Alliance welcomes Diabetes Inquiry calls

4 Jul 2024
Food for Health Alliance has welcomed the Federal Parliamentary Inquiry into Diabetes’ recommendations for the Australian Government to protect children from junk food marketing, introduce a tiered levy on sugary drinks to fast-track reformulation, and implement food labelling reforms that target added sugar.
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New data shows supermarkets pushing unhealthy foods onto Australians

13 Jun 2024
Supermarkets are using product placement and price promotions to lure Australians into buying more unhealthy foods than they intend to, with shocking new Cancer Council Victoria research showing the marketing tactics are working.
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New research shows kids are targeted with alcohol, gambling and junk food ads online

4 Jun 2024
A new pilot study analysing screen recordings from young people’s online activity has found that companies are targeting them with ads for harmful products including alcohol, gambling and junk food.
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Data shows Aussies cutting back veggies not unhealthy snacks

12 Apr 2024
Executive Manager, Jane Martin, comments on Australian Bureau of Statistics data published today showing Australians are cutting back on vegetables and fruit but snack foods continue to fill supermarket trolleys.
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World Obesity Day: Public health groups slam lack of action on tackling Australia’s growing obesity crisis

4 Mar 2024
This World Obesity Day, Food for Health Alliance has singled out government inaction on tackling Australia’s growing obesity crisis, with little progress made since the National Obesity Strategy was launched in 2022.
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New study finds junk food and sugary drink consumption linked to increased health risks

29 Feb 2024
Jane Martin comments on a new study which finds junk food and sugary drink consumption linked to over 30 damaging health outcomes.
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Strong support to stop harmful food and drink marketing targeting kids: new data

12 Feb 2024
Most Australians want action to protect children from unhealthy food and sugary drink marketing on TV, online and social media, new data reveals.
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Shocking diet data sparks public health call for urgent government action

15 Dec 2023
Poor diets among children have increased according to ABS National Health Survey 2022 data.

Public health praise moves to curb food industry’s misleading ‘no added sugar’ claims

4 Dec 2023
FHA supports changes to the Food Standards Code that would see high sugar foods unable to carry ‘no added sugar’ claims on packaging.
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Excessive marketing claims on baby and toddler foods hide unhealthy truth

16 Oct 2023
Alarming new research reveals ready-made baby and toddler foods can carry up to 20 marketing claims that trick consumers into believing these products are wholesome for little ones, when often they are not. On average, 8 claims were found on packaged foods for our youngest consumers.

Quit and Food for Health Alliance support call for urgent parliamentary inquiry into harmful industries

4 Oct 2023
Quit and Food for Health Alliance today endorse calls for an urgent parliamentary inquiry into the impact of harmful industries, led by Dr Sophie Scamps MP. Ubiquitous vaping and junk food advertising targets children online, in retail stores and in outdoor spaces daily.
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Privacy reforms highlight need to protect children from harmful product marketing

29 Sep 2023
Joint media release from the Foundation for Alcohol Research, the Alliance for Gambling Reform and Food for Health Alliance in support of the Government's acknowledgement that children's privacy needs to be better protected online.
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