Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP | USA | 23 Jan 2015
The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's (RWJF) Healthy Eating Research initiative has published a January 2015 report seeking to close alleged loopholes…
Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP | USA | 18 Jul 2014
The Food Marketing Workgroup (FMW) has sent a July 16, 2014, letter to Kraft Foods Group, Inc., questioning how the company purportedly markets its…
Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP | USA | 7 Feb 2014
In a Food and Drug Law Institute (FDLI) Update article titled "State Law Approaches to Curtail Digital Food Marketing Tactics Targeting Young Children…
Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP | USA | 13 Dec 2013
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) recently hosted a workshop on digital native advertising as part its effort to ensure that "consumers can identify…
Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP | USA | 30 Aug 2013
A recent study funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation has claimed that fast food TV advertisements directed at children have allegedly failed…
Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP | USA | 28 Jun 2013
The Obesity Policy Coalition (OPC) recently announced that the Australian Advertising Standards Board (ASB) has upheld its complaint alleging that a…
Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP | USA | 29 Mar 2013
U.S. Sens. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) and Richard Durbin (D-Ill.) recently sent letters to the CEOs of Monster Beverage Corp., Rockstar, Inc., and…
Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP | USA | 30 Nov 2012
Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-Ohio) has introduced a bill to deny federal tax deductions to companies marketing “junk food” to children.
Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP | USA | 29 Jun 2012
Yale University’s Rudd Center for Food Policy and Obesity has issued a report claiming that cereal companies “have improved the nutritional quality of most cereals marketed directly to children, but they have also increased advertising to children for many of their least nutritious products.”
Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP | USA | 3 Feb 2012
The Association of National Advertisers’ 2012 Advertising Law & Public Policy Conference will reportedly target how best “to navigate today’s complex marketing landscape and remain on the cutting edge in an ever-challenging legal and regulatory environment.”