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Markey Planning Food Marketing Hearings
Submitted by Benton Foundation on May 22, 2007 - 7:09am
Last updated: February 21, 2008 - 6:24am
Last updated: February 21, 2008 - 6:24am
MARKEY PLANNING FOOD MARKETING HEARINGS
[SOURCE: Broadcasting&Cable, AUTHOR: John Eggerton]
The question is not "if" but "when" -- House Telecommunications & Internet Subcommittee Chairman Ed Markey (D-MA) will most likely hold hearings on the media's food marketing to kids. The issue now is timing -- whether to hold them before or after a government-industry task force on childhood obesity and food marketing makes its recommendations to Congress, which is targeted for mid-summer.
http://www.broadcastingcable.com/article/CA6445155.html?rssid=193
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