Endless delays, moving goalposts: HFSS policy farce deepens

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Having presided over this farcical mismanagement of the HFSS advertising restrictions, the government looks set to cause more chaos

We’ve been waiting and waiting and waiting for the official guidance to be announced ahead of the 4 January HFSS advertising watershed ban. And as I write this it’s finally come through – a whole month in advance – from the Committee of Advertising Practice (CAP). What a joke.

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