“The new uniform nutrition criteria establish limits on calories, saturated fat, trans fat, sodium and sugars for ten product categories, and include requirements for nutrition components to encourage, such as vegetables, fruit, low-fat dairy, whole grains, and essential vitamins and minerals. The new criteria require participants to improve many products they currently advertise to children ? products that already meet meaningful nutrition standards ? if they wish to continue advertising them after these criteria go into effect on December 31, 2013.”
Concern about how food is marketed to children
Games featuring snack foods becoming increasingly popular with kids
Published On: Nov 21 2012 02:52:20 PM EST
Updated On: Nov 23 2012 06:20:00 AM EST
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