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The Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI), with input from leading experts in children's health, has developed guidelines to provide companies who manufacture, sell, market, or otherwise promote food to children with criteria for marketing food to children in a manner that does not undermine children's diets or harm their health.

You can find the "Guidelines for Responsible Food Marketing to Children" at: http://cspinet.org/marketingguidelines.pdf (Adobe Acrobat Reader is required to read this document.)

To learn how you can use the Guidelines to make changes in your community, click on: http://cspinet.org/nutritionpolicy/guidelines_organizing_tool.pdf (Adobe Acrobat Reader is required to read this document.)

For background information, see "Pestering Parents: How Food Companies Market Obesity to Children" at: http://www.cspinet.org/pesteringparents

If you would like to work to urge companies to follow the Guidelines in your state or community, please let us know how we can be of assistance. Also, please forward the Guidelines to others who you think might be interested.

Dr. Margo G. Wootan
Center for Science in the Public Interest
202-777-8352