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European Region Consultation on the implementation and achievements of the WHO European Action Plan to Reduce the Harmful Use of Alcohol 2012–2020

World Health Organization WHO, Regional Office for Europe (2019) C_WHO

Additional aims of the consultations included discussing achievements, identifying obstacles for implementation, and outlining the way forward. Areas with the lowest policy implementation were linked to pricing policies, marketing, availability of alcoholic beverages, reducing the negative consequen... more

GIEWS Country Brief: Bangladesh 20-February-2018

Food and Agricultural Organisation of the United Nations (FAO) (2018) C1

Favourable prospects for 2018 boro rice output Paddy production in 2017 estimated marginally below-average Cereal imports in 2017/18 marketing year forecast to remain high Prices of rice and wheat higher year-on-year

WHO Nutrient Profile Model for South-East Asia Region

World Health Organization (WHO), Regional Office for South-East Asia (2017) C_WHO

To implement the set of recommendations on the marketing of foods and non-alcoholic beverages to children
With the growing obesity crisis among children, WHO and other public health advocates and consumer groups have called for restrictions on advertising of ‘unhealthy foods’ high in salt, ... more

Ghana: GUIDELINES FOR SAFETY MONITORING OF MEDICINAL PRODUCTS

Food and Drug Authority (FDA), Ghana (2016) C2

Document No. : FDA/SMC/SMD/GL-SMP/2015/05 | These guidelines are for information, guidance and strict compliance by Marketing Authorization Holders and Local Representatives of regulated products to help in the continuous safety monitoring of products granted marketing authorization in Ghana.

Zambia: APPLICATION FOR MARKETING AUTHORISATION OF CONDOMS

Zambia Medicines Regulatory Authority (ZAMRA) (2016) C2

Guidance for the preparation and submission of dossiers

Guideline on the assessment of the risk to public health from antimicrobial resistance due to the use of an antimicrobial veterinary medicinal product in food producing animals

EMA European Medicines Agency (2018) C2

This guideline provides advice in regards to applications for Marketing Authorisations for antimicrobial veterinary medicinal products (VMPs) on the data required and the methodology to be used for performing an assessment of the risk to public health from antimicrobial resistance (AMR) due to use o... more

Commercial foods for infants and young children in the WHO European Region. Policy brief on two new reports by the WHO Regional Office for Europe

World Health OrganizationEurope (2019) C_WHO

Despite recommendations on the marketing of commercial baby and toddler foods, two new reports from WHO find widespread evidence of inappropriate promotion and poor nutritional quality of foods for infants and young children across the WHO European Region. To address these issues and help countries ... more

Improving the nutritional quality of commercial foods for infants and young children in the WHO European Region

World Health OrganizationEurope (2019) C_WHO

These new reports from WHO document evidence of widespread inappropriate promotion of baby and toddler foods. Despite the WHO Guidance on ending inappropriate promotion of foods for infants and young children agreed in 2016 and nearly 40 years since the introduction of the International Code of Mark... more

Monitoring food and beverage marketing to children via television in the Kyrgyz Republic

World Health OrganizationEurope (2019) C_WHO

This report summarizes the results of a 2018 survey of food and beverage marketing to children via television in the Kyrgyz Republic. It explores the extent and nature of children’s exposure to marketing for food high in saturated fat, free sugars and/or salt via television in the country. The stu... more

Monitoring and restricting digital marketing of unhealthy products to children and adolescents

World Health OrganizationEurope (2019) C_WHO

The WHO European Office for the Prevention and Control of Noncommunicable Diseases organized an expert meeting on monitoring of digital marketing of unhealthy products to children and adolescents in June 2018. Based on that meeting, this report aims to provide a tool to support Member States in moni... more

Monitoring food and beverage marketing to children via television in the Republic of Kazakhstan

World Health OrganizationEurope (2019) C_WHO

This report summarizes the results of a 2018 survey of food and beverage marketing to children via television in the Republic of Kazakhstan. It explores the extent and nature of children’s exposure to marketing for food high in saturated fat, free sugars and/or salt via television in the country. ... more

WHO good manufacturing practices for pharmaceutical products: main principles

World Health Organization WHO (2014) C_WHO

Licensed pharmaceutical products (marketing authorization) should be manufactured only by licensed manufacturers (holders of a manufacturing authorization) whose activities are regularly inspected by competent national authorities. This guide to GMP shall be used as a standard to justify GMP status,... more

Regulatory guidance for assessment and management of applications for marketing authorization of oxytocin

World Health Organization WHO (2021) C_WHO

Pharmaceutical regulators are at the forefront of ensuring that only safe and effective medicines are authorized and available in the market. This document builds on the recommendations in the above publication and has been prepared to specifically assist national medicines regulatory authorities to... more

Marketing of breast-milk substitutes: national implmentation of the international code

World Health Organization WHO (2019) C_WHO

Status Report 2018

How the marketing of formula milk influences our decisions on infant feeding

World Health Organization WHO (2022) CC

This report - the largest of its kind to date - draws on the experiences of over 8,500 women and 300 health professionals across eight countries. It exposes the aggressive marketing practices used by the formula milk industry, and highlights impacts on families’ decisions about how to feed their b... more

Reducing the harm from alcohol by regulating cross-border alcohol marketing, advertising and promotion: executive summary

World Health Organization WHO (2022) C_WHO

This short document summarizes the key content of the WHO report Reducing the harm from alcohol by regulating cross-border alcohol marketing, advertising and promotion. It outlines the way that alcohol is being marketed across national borders – often by digital means – and often regardless of t... more

Policies to protect children from the harmful impact of food marketing: WHO guideline

World Health Organisation (WHO) (2023) C_WHO

Children continue to be exposed to powerful food marketing, which predominantly promotes foods high in saturated fatty acids, trans-fatty acids, free sugars and/or sodium and uses a wide variety of marketing strategies that are likely to appeal to children. Food marketing has a harmful impact on chi... more

Restriction du marketing numérique dans le contexte du tabac, de l’alcool, des aliments, des boissons et des substituts du lait maternel

World Health Organisation (WHO) (2024) C_WHO

Les présentes orientations de l’OMS portent sur la restriction du marketing (notamment le marketing numérique) dans les contextes des produits du tabac et des produits à base de nicotine, de l’alcool, des aliments et des boissons nocifs pour la santé, ainsi que des substituts du lait materne... more

Hooking the next generation: how the tobacco industry captures young customers

World Health Organisation (WHO) (2024) CC

Young people across the world are urging governments to shield them from predatory tobacco marketing tactics. The industry targets youth for a lifetime of profits, creating a new wave of addiction. The latest data show that children are using e-cigarettes at rates higher than adults in many countrie... more

Marketing of breast-milk substitutes: national implementation of the International Code, status report 2024
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World Health Organisation (WHO) (2024) C_WHO

This report provides updated information on the status of implementation of the International Code of Marketing of Breast-milk Substitutes (BMS) and subsequent relevant World Health Assembly (WHA) resolutions (collectively referred to as “the Code”) in countries. It presents the legal status of ... more