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05/07/2012

CFBAI Highlights Significant Progress in Child-Directed Food and Beverage Advertising

Products advertised to children are now lower in calories, sugars, sodium and fats; that was the some of the progress under self-regulation reported at CDC’s Weight of the Nation conference today by Elaine Kolish, Director of the Children’s Food and Beverage Advertising Initiative (CFBAI) and Vice President at the Council of Better Business Bureaus.

12/13/2011

Five Years of Industry Self-Regulation Results in Remarkable Changes in Food Advertising to Kids, Says BBB

Five years ago, leading food and beverage companies made a major commitment to be a part of the solution to childhood obesity by agreeing to limit what foods they advertise to children under the age of 12.

12/15/2010

3rd Annual Report on the Children’s Food and Beverage Advertising Initiative Shows Excellent Compliance

Report finds steady progress in promoting healthier products to kids being made

09/23/2010

Sara Lee Corporation Joins Industry Initiative to Promote Healthier Foods to Kids

Children’s Food and Beverage Advertising Initiative continues to expand industry participation and promote harmonization of pledges

06/01/2010

Can You Trust a Door-to-Door Meat Salesman?

Every summer, Better Business Bureau receives troubling complaints from consumers who purchased meat from door-to-door salesmen and were dissatisfied with the quality or even claim to have gotten food poisoning.

10/01/2009

Post Foods Joins BBB Self Regulation Initiative on Child-Directed Food Advertising

The Council of Better Business Bureaus today announced that Post Foods, LLC has become a participant in the Children’s Food and Beverage Advertising Initiative.

08/01/1998

FTC - Measuring Up! Good Packaging Practices for Dairy Products

Federal and state agencies have recently conducted two studies of the accuracy of net content statements on cartons of milk. A 1997 study found that many containers of milk sold at wholesale and retail and many cartons of milk served in schools, universities and hospitals contained less than the amount stated on the label. Although the individual package shortages were very small, the cumulative effect of short-filling can be significant over time and across the industry.

12/01/1996

FTC - Kitchen Gadgets Offer Food for "Thaw-t"

Did you forget to thaw the chicken for tonight's dinner? How are you going to keep the baked bean casserole hot until you get to the tailgate party?


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