Publication
Consumers International recommendations for the UN high-level summit on non-communicable diseases (NCDs)
16 Jun 2011
| Author | Consumers International |
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| Publisher | Consumers International |
| Issue | food, policy |
Three of the four main risk factors for NCDs relate directly to
consumer issues. Consumers International (CI) calls on world
leaders to support consumers through education, principled advice,
restrictions on harmful or misleading marketing, and actions to
ensure access to healthy products and the elimination of
disincentives to healthy consumption. The actions of industry
should be guided by clear policy parameters developed by
governments in the public interest and without any commercial
conflict of interest. CI also calls on governments to cooperate
nationally and internationally to incorporate prevention of the
risk factors for NCDs into other policy-making areas besides
health, including but not limited to: trade, taxation, education,
food security, agriculture, food production, food safety, urban
development and the environment. Global bodies should commit to
ensuring that agreements on trade liberalisation, procurement and
investment do not constrain governments' policy choices to tackle
risk factors for NCDs including the promotion of healthier foods
and diets.
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