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(d)
Adopt, implement and enforce easy-to-understand labelling and nutritional
profiling requirements, such as “traffic light” labelling;
(e)
Encourage TNCs, through incentives and other fiscal measures, to manufacture
and sell healthier alternatives of foods and beverages that are not harmful to the
people’s health;
(f)
Regulate the marketing, advertisement and promotion of unhealthy foods,
particularly to women and children, to reduce their visibility and to increase the
visibility of healthier options by, for instance, requiring supermarkets to place fruits
and vegetables in more accessible and visible places.
65.
With a view to ensuring their obligation to realize the right to health of
vulnerable groups such as children, women and low-income groups, the Special
Rapporteur recommends that States take the following steps:
(a)
Address gender stereotypes in preparation of meals that place an unequal
burden of cooking on women;
(b)
Formulate and implement health education programmes to promote healthy
food options in such institutional settings as schools, health or youth centres and
workplaces by involving children, parents and employees, respectively;
(c)
Ensure that social welfare schemes for low-income groups make relevant
information available and provide access to healthier food options to eliminate “food
deserts”.
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.
67.
With a view to making accountability and remedial mechanisms available and
accessible to victims of violations, the Special Rapporteur recommends that States
take the following steps:
(a)
Ensure that international investment and trade agreements are entered into
with full transparency and participation of affected groups by conducting open
discussions before, during and after negotiation of the agreements;
(b)
Encourage and promote independent monitoring of activities of the State and
the food industry. Urge participation of affected people and local communities in
monitoring such activities;
(c)
Ensure remedies through legislation and appropriate mechanisms against
States and non-State actors for failure to take steps towards their obligations under
the right to health and to fulfil their international commitments on reduction of dietrelated NCDs.
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