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The Guardian - UK
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Kate Connolly in Berlin

German minister calls for ban on advertising junk food to children

Chocolate Kinder Eggs on display in a supermarket in Hanover, central Germany.
Chocolate Kinder Eggs on display in a supermarket in Hanover, central Germany. Photograph: Ole Spata/dpa/AFP/Getty Images

Germany’s agriculture minister has called for a ban on all advertising accessible by children of unhealthy food including sweets and items with a high salt, fat and sugar content, arguing that the future health of Germany’s young people is at stake.

Cem Özdemir, of the Greens, said it was time to protect children from the effects of unhealthy food including obesity, diabetes and other illnesses.

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