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		<title>Trinidad and Tobago Takes the Caribbean Lead in Tobacco Control</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 31 Jul 2009 14:08:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Keith R</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Trinidad and Tobago&#8217;s Health Minister presented a pretty tough tobacco control bill in Parliament the other day, and seems confident it will emerge as a law in just a few months with little watering down.  It appears that Trinidad and Tobago will take the lead in CARICOM&#8217;s recent pledge to ban smoking in public places [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Colombia&#8217;s Surprising New Tobacco Control Law</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Jul 2009 15:02:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Keith R</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Colombia has just passed a law on tobacco that is, well, surpising, given the language of the original bill and how strongly the industry lobby fought against against any amendments to toughen it.
Among other things, the new law:

bans sales to minors of any tobacco product, and requires vendors to check for proof of age;
bans placement [...]]]></description>
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		<title>DR Authority Criticizes Deceptive Advertising by Stores</title>
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		<comments>http://www.temasactuales.com/temasblog/consumer-protection/dr-authority-criticizes-deceptive-advertising-by-stores/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Mar 2009 13:30:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Keith R</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When you move to a new country, you immediately start noticing how it differs from your former home.  Differences that perhaps you knew about intellectually and maybe even noticed in visits before you moved, but they just did not truly sink in before you were actually confronted by them in daily life.  When my family [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Taking the Campaign on Advertising to Kids to the Streets of Santiago</title>
		<link>http://www.temasactuales.com/temasblog/consumer-protection/advertisingpromotion/taking-the-campaign-on-advertising-to-kids-to-the-streets-of-santiago/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Mar 2009 02:03:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Keith R</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Advertising/Promotion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Food/Beverage Issues]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.temasactuales.com/temasblog/?p=3727</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Related Posts:Eye on Ads: Ecuadorian PSA on Changing to CFLsEye on Ads: Brazil&#8217;s Initial TV Assault on AlcoholTrash Photos XV: Clothes and Accessories from TrashDia Sin Auto en ChileEye on Ads: Promoting HandwashingCopyright &#169; 2010 The Temas Blog. This Feed is for personal non-commercial use only. If you are not reading this material in your [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Argentina Deepens Restrictions on Alcohol</title>
		<link>http://www.temasactuales.com/temasblog/health-issues/argentina-deepens-restrictions-on-alcohol/</link>
		<comments>http://www.temasactuales.com/temasblog/health-issues/argentina-deepens-restrictions-on-alcohol/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Mar 2009 01:45:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Keith R</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[President Cristina Fernandez issued an implementing decree for the 12-year old Alcohol Act, deepening restrictions on alcohol beverage advertising and consumption and obliging social security services to treat the social consequences of its consumption.
The signing ceremony was attended by the Ministers expected to implement the rules: Health, Graciela Ocaña; Labor, Carlos Tomada; Justice, Anibal Fernandez; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Federal Prosecutor Pressures Fast-Food Chains to Suspend Offering Toys with Meals</title>
		<link>http://www.temasactuales.com/temasblog/consumer-protection/advertisingpromotion/federal-prosecutor-pressures-fast-food-chains-to-suspend-offering-toys-with-meals/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Mar 2009 00:43:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Keith R</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[alimentos]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Federal Public Ministry (MPF) in São Paulo (PRSP) yesterday called for the Burger King, McDonald&#8217;s and Bob&#8217;s fast food chains to suspend the sale of promotional toys in their restaurants. He gave the companies ten days to meet the &#8220;recommendation.&#8221; The MPF also called for the National Health Surveillance Agency (ANVISA) to take a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>WHO Takes Aim at Alcohol</title>
		<link>http://www.temasactuales.com/temasblog/health-issues/who-takes-aim-at-alcohol/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Jan 2009 03:33:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Keith R</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The World Health Organization&#8217;s (WHO) Executive Board (EB), meeting in Geneva this week, gave the WHO Secretariat the green light to prepare a global strategy on alcohol consumption.
The EB is, as the name implies, WHO&#8217;s executive arm, giving direction to the Organization between its annual governing body meetings, the World Health Assembly (WHA) held every [...]]]></description>
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		<title>MERCOSUR Adopts Guidelines on Promotion, Advertising &amp; Marketing of Pharmaceuticals</title>
		<link>http://www.temasactuales.com/temasblog/health-issues/mercosur-adopts-guidelines-on-promotion-advertising-marketing-of-pharmaceuticals/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Dec 2008 17:27:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Keith R</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve said here many times that Latin American and Caribbean (LAC) nations tend to take seriously the recommendations, guidelines and other soft norms of the World Health Organization (WHO) on any issue involving public health and/or the environment, and I&#8217;ve tried to provide a few examples where WHO work has translated into national laws and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Cereal Offenses&#8221; in LAC</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Dec 2008 18:09:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Keith R</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you have kids and read the labels of foods you shop for or buy, you probably know well the struggle to avoid buying breakfast cereals that are not loaded with sugar and/or sodium (salt).  Sometimes even when you avoid the obvious culprits (after all, if the name is &#8220;frosted,&#8221; most of us can guess!), [...]]]></description>
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		<title>LAC Consumer Protection Agencies Agree to Increase Cooperation</title>
		<link>http://www.temasactuales.com/temasblog/consumer-protection/lac-consumer-protection-agencies-agree-to-increase-cooperation/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Dec 2008 16:30:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Keith R</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When I wrote my Overview of Consumer Law in LAC and Overview of Consumer Authorities in LAC, I somehow overlooked any mention of regional efforts to get the consumer protection authorities (where they exist) to work together.  Let me rectify that first with this post here, and then with appropriate amendments to those two standalone [...]]]></description>
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