Workshop on Regulating Food Marketing to Children in the Pacific, Nadi, Fiji, 21-22 November 2022: meeting report

In response to the increasing prevalence of childhood overweight, obesity and malnutrition, and the harmful impact of food marketing on children’s health, the World Health Organization (WHO) Regional Committee for the Western Pacific endorsed the Regional Action Framework on Protecting Children from the Harmful Impact of Food Marketing in the Western Pacific in 2019. 

The Workshop on Regulating Food Marketing to Children in the Pacific aimed to provide technical assistance, capacity-building, networking, shared learning and support for a back-casting approach to planning for Member States in the Pacific to progress action on the implementation of national legislation to restrict food marketing of unhealthy foods and beverages to children.