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A recent report issued by the British Heart Foundation (BHF) and Children’s Food Campaign (CFC) has described online food marketing to children as “pervasive,” with more than 75 percent of Websites targeting children with high fat, sugar and salt (HFSS) products “linked to a corresponding product or brand page on a social networking site” such as Facebook or Twitter
Concluding that advertisements for Nutella hazelnut spread were “unlikely to encourage poor nutritional habits or an unhealthy lifestyle in children,” the British Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) has reportedly rejected 31 complaints challenging the promotional messages as misleading
A U.K.-based public interest charity has filed 54 separate complaints with the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) contending that the subject companies, including Cadbury and Pringle’s, are promoting food products high in sugars, fat or salt to children online
