The Food Marketing Workgroup
BMSG and the Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI) coordinated the Food Marketing Workgroup, a network of more than 200 organizations and academic experts in the U.S. who are concerned about the proliferation of marketing of unhealthful foods and beverages that targets children and adolescents.
Through the Workgroup, experts and leaders in nutrition, public health, advertising and marketing, consumer protection, public policy, child development, government, and civil society shared important research to inform policies and programs at the local, state, and national levels that promote healthful diets for children and adolescents and address obesity. Food Marketing Workgroup members advocated for companies to stop advertising junk food to kids. Within the FMW, BMSG focused on eliminating junk food marketing to kids of color and supporting the group’s target marketing subcommittee.
Food Marketing Workgroup website
Related publications
Fight fast food companies
by Andrew Cheyne | San Francisco Chronicle Monday, December 12, 2011
Who’s for kids and who’s just kidding?
by David Britt, Lori Dorfman | The Hill Wednesday, October 5, 2011
Curbing the marketing of unhealthy food to children
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation