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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Politics
Josie Clarke

Government must ‘stand up to the food industry’ to tackle obesity epidemic – MPs

Cheeseburgers and French fries (Dominic Lipinski/PA) - (PA Archive)

The Government must “stand up” to the food industry after decades of failure to tackle obesity that is costing the country tens of billions a year, MPs have said.

All outdoor advertising of junk food should be banned and front-of-pack labelling should be mandatory to tackle England’s obesity epidemic, the Health and Social Care Committee said.

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