India: new labelling laws lead to trouble for booze importers 10 August 2014 Half a million bottles of alcoholic beverages appear to be stuck at the Indian border waiting to be cleared by customs following the implementation of a new labelling law last March. The latest amendment to the law on packaging of alcoholic products … Read More →
10 August 2014 A new study conducted by the Center for Research on Aging, Health and Well-Being at the Australian National University in Canberra found that mixing energy drinks with booze results in increased urges to drink alcohol compared to drinking alcohol alone. The study, published in Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research, included 75 participants, … Read More →
21 July 2014 Namibian opposition MP Clara Gowases earlier this month called for a ban on all alcohol-related advertisements in a policy effort to curb the escalating use of alcohol in the South Western African nation. Miss Gowases who represents the Republican Party in the Namibian National Assembly called for a ban on advertising alcoholic … Read More →
The road-safety lobby is preparing a campaign against Formula One over its links with the alcohol industry, according to The Daily Telegraph. The campaign will follow road-safety and alcohol-prevention NGOs having successfully lobbied against Federation Internationale de l’Automobile’s president Jean Todt’s ambitions of a job at the United Nations. In a move that, according to … Read More →
10 July 2014 A bill recently approved by the State Duma temporarily suspends recently introduced regulations on alcohol marketing in Russia in 2018 for the occasion of hosting the FIFA World Cup. The amendment is argued to increase the regions’ funding for sports events. It temporarily reverses a series of restrictions that were imposed in … Read More →
9 July 2014 Underage drinkers between the ages of 18 and 20 see more magazine advertising than any other age group for the alcohol brands they consume most heavily, raising important questions about whether current alcohol self-regulatory codes concerning advertising are sufficiently protecting young people. This is the conclusion of a new study from the … Read More →
23 June 2014 New research finds that alcohol firms are adopting tactics pioneered by the tobacco industry by funding charities in order to gain influence inside government. Among the alcohol charities receiving alcohol industry funding are the only two charities that remain in the UK government’s responsibility deal. A new study in the European Journal … Read More →
22 June 2014 American blogger Vani Hari recently caught the MillerCoors Company strategically hiding their use of corn-syrup as ingredient of their beers. Concerned over the use of genetically modified corn and the fact that MillerCoors remains secretive about the complete list of ingredients of their products, Hari started a petition asking MillerCoors and Anheuser-Busch … Read More →
22 June 2014 While most attention may currently be going out to the alcohol branded sponsorship of the FIFA football world cup in Brazil, Scottish health bodies are also critically pointing at the Commonwealth Games whose organisers have recently chosen two alcohol firms as sponsors. The Commonwealth Games is the third largest multi-sport event in … Read More →
21 June 2014 Balance, the alcohol centred NGO for the North-East of England, is one of the many parties calling for a ban on alcohol sports sponsorship. To drive this message home on the occasion of the 2014 FIFA World Cup of football, Balance has launched its new campaign ‘alcohol sponsorship: let’s kick it out’, … Read More →