Food Industry Chases Self Regulation

At a meeting yesterday between food executives, government officials, consumer advocates and academics to discuss marketing food to children, Senator Tom Harkin, a Democrat from Iowa, introduced a bill that would lift the ban on the FTC's regulating of advertising aimed at children, according to the New York Times. The bill has yet to get much support from Congress; government bans on certain types of marketing to children is neither "wise nor viable," said FTC chairwoman, Deborah Platt Majoras.