Covid pandemic. Ministers have unveiled plans to ban TV ads for unhealthy food before the 9pm watershed.Now they want to go further and outlaw adverts for high fat, sugar and salt products.Takeaway bosses are alarmed and have said it could be the death knell for thousands of small businesses.
Andrew Crooks, of the British Takeaway Campaign, warned it would “punitively punish” thousands of small, independent eateries already reeling from the effects of the coronavirus crisis.The government says it wants to protect children online and believes stricter rules could lead to 120,000 fewer obese and overweight kids in Britain, writes The Sun.
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