81. Among other responsibilities and in all contexts, private companies should: refrain from engaging children in hazardous labour while ensuring they comply with the minimum age for child labour; comply with the International Code of Marketing of Breast-milk Substitutes and the relevant subsequent World Health Assembly resolutions; limit advertisement of energy-dense, micronutrient-poor foods, and drinks containing high levels of caffeine or other substances potentially harmful to children; and refrain from the advertisement, marketing and sale to children of tobacco, alcohol and other toxic substances or the use of child images.
| Year | 2013 |
| Topic | Food policy Tobacco control |
| Document Type | General Recommendations |
| Country | N/A |
| Policy Area | Food marketing regulations Industry interference Breastfeeding Tobacco advertising, promotion, and sponsorship (TAPS) Tobacco use |
| Human Rights Comiteee | CRC |
| Human Rights | Right to health Right to adequate food and nutrition Recommendation of ratification of human rights international instruments Business and human rights |
| Groups Affected | Children and adolescents |
Committee on the Rights of the Child, General comment No. 15 - on the right of the child to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of health (art. 24), CRC/C/GC/15, (2013). Par. 81. Available at: https://tbinternet.ohchr.org/_layouts/15/treatybodyexternal/Download.aspx?symbolno=CRC%2fC%2fGC%2f15&Lang=en
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