Markey Asks Nestlé To Join Anti-Obesity Initiative

Rep Ed Markey, the Chairman of the House Subcommittee on Telecommunications and the Internet, has called on Nestlé to join 13 other major food manufacturers in the Council of Better Business Bureau's Children's Food and Beverage Advertising Initiative. "I am puzzled why Nestlé can pledge to cut back on junk food marketing in Canada but not in the United States," Rep Markey wrote the company. He said the absence of one of the world's biggest food companies from the U.S. self-regulatory effort "raises the question of whether voluntary industry action will be sufficient to address food marketing to children..."
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