NL: No more cartoon characters on “unhealthy” kids products
Following on from the UK’s ban on advertising for food and drinks high in fat, salt or sugar aimed at children, the Dutch Food Industry Federation (FNLI) is planning to prevent cartoon characters being used on packaging of perceived unhealthy products that target young kids.
This includes the likes of Dora the Explorer and Miffy the bunny. FNLI adds that since the proposal is for physical product packaging and not utterances on radio, television, print or social media, the rules also affect products with Dutch text on packaging produced in other EU countries. It hopes that the phasing-out would come into force next year (FoodIngredients1st, 9 December 2016).
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