66. Recognizing the role of the food industry in the growing burden of NCDs, the Special Rapporteur recommends that the food industry take the following steps:
(a) Adopt internationally acceptable nutritional labelling guidelines and comply with domestically-enacted guidelines in this respect;
(b) Refrain from marketing, promoting and advertising of unhealthy foods to the population, especially to children;
(c) Invest in improving the nutritional content of unhealthy foods;
(d) Increase transparency of nutritional information on food products, while desisting from making false and misleading health claims;
(e) Abstain from undermining public health nutrition efforts, including through such means as funding and publicizing biased research, instituting front groups and conducting expensive and onerous litigation.
| Year | 2014 |
| Topic | Food policy |
| Document Type | Special Reports |
| Country | N/A |
| Policy Area | Packaging and labeling Food marketing regulations Industry interference Education and information Trade and investment |
| Human Rights | Right to adequate food and nutrition Right to information Business and human rights |
| Groups Affected | Children and adolescents |
Special Rapporteur on the right of everyone to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health, Report of the Special Rapporteur on the right of everyone to
the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health: Promotion and protection of all human rights, civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights, including the right to development, A/HRC/26/31, (2014). Par. 66. Available at: https://undocs.org/A/HRC/26/31
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