Call for guidelines as firms market goods in schools

FAST-FOOD chains, chocolate manufacturers, supermarkets and other firms are marketing their products in primary schools in the absence of clear policies from Government or at local level.

But this situation needs to be examined for possible links to childhood obesity according to the head of a campaign for commercial-free education.

That’s the conclusion of an article in the Department of Education’s Oideas journal, which examined how advertisers use schools for their commercial benefit.