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New Report Reveals Industry-Led Initiative Restricting Products Advertised to Kids Fails to Protect Them from Marketing of Unhealthy Foods and Beverages

Stuart Mitchell

Although recent revisions to the nutrition criteria used by the Children’s Food and Beverage Advertising Initiative (CFBAI), the food industry’s self-regulatory program, led to minor nutritional improvements in products that may be advertised to kids, the initiative fails to meaningfully protect them from marketing of unhealthy food and beverages, according to a new report from researchers at the Rudd Center for Food Policy & Health at the University of Connecticut. The report, FACTS 2022. Food industry self-regulation: Changes in nutrition of foods and drinks that may be advertised to children,…

Healthcare Workers’ Foundation Donates More Than 65,000 Units Of PPE To Hospitals In Africa And The Maldives

Stuart Mitchell

The Healthcare Workers’ Foundation (HWF), the charity started by and for healthcare workers in the midst of the pandemic, has partnered with global environmental organisation Parley for the Oceans (Parley), for the second time to support healthcare workers in the Maldives. The two have joined forces again to donate PPE – including recycled visors, hospital gowns, masks and goggles – to hospitals based in the Maldives, providing enough equipment to support all of the hospitals and covid facilities across the entire country. To coincide with this initiative, the charity has…

New Report Demonstrates Strong Scientific Link Between Forests and Human Health

Stuart Mitchell

Marking two years since the current pandemic spread across the globe, World Wildlife Fund (WWF) has released The Vitality of Forests, a new report synthesizing a mounting body of evidence that documents how human health depends on forests. This is one of the first reports that details the escalating risks to human health associated with forest loss and degradation, including the emergence of zoonotic infectious diseases. The findings strongly argue that the conservation, protection and restoration of the world’s forests are undeniably critical to safeguarding and promoting human health. “Forests…

Ireland’s dairy sector driving new rural mental health campaign with Samaritans

Stuart Mitchell

The new partnership with milk processors – who are all members of the Ibec group Dairy Industry Ireland (DII) – aims to raise awareness of Samaritans freephone number 116 123 among farmers and other people in rural Ireland, especially those living or working in isolation. The signs will appear on approximately 500 milk trucks and agri-feed vehicles owned by some of the country’s largest co-operatives. It is supported by Arrabawn, Aurivo, Carbery (including Drinagh, Bandon, Lisavard and Barryroe co-ops), Dairygold, Glanbia, Kerry, Lakeland, North Cork, Ornua (Kerrygold), and Tipperary. Conor…

Unilever to set new benchmark for Healthy Nutrition

Stuart Mitchell

Unilever has announced that it will be the first global Foods company to publicly report the performance of its product portfolio against at least six different government-endorsed Nutrient Profile Models (NPM) as well as its own Highest Nutritional Standards (HNS). Unilever will publish the assessment on an annual basis both globally and for 16 key strategic markets and will report its performance both by volume of product and by sales revenue. Its first report will be published by October 2022. The move comes following extensive, constructive engagement with ShareAction and…