More and more women are addicted to booze – but their needs have largely been ignored by the medical establishment. By Marisa Taylor, BBC.com 18 June 2018 It used to be that men were the outsized alcohol drinkers in Western society – perhaps best depicted in popular culture by Don Draper’s Mad Men cronies, who … Read More →
Jun 14 2018 While alcohol is consumed and enjoyed by most New Zealanders, well over half a million New Zealanders consume alcohol in a hazardous way. Boozing has become normalised in New Zealand, and that means it’s likely we’ll drink more – and at higher risk levels, new research says. One of the study’s authors, Massey … Read More →
By Lisa Du and Maiko Takahashi Updated on 4 juni 2018 10:28 CEST Japanese brewers are giving consumers more ways to get drunk on the cheap. Japanese brewers are discovering a new way to tap the lucrative market of working adults: Get them tipsy more quickly and efficiently. This domestic segment is becoming more important … Read More →
Otago Daily times 23 May; By John Gibb New Zealanders should take “a good long look in the mirror” over the need to improve “highly deficient” warning labels on alcohol containers, University of Otago researchers say. “We’re not doing a very good job,” Tessa Gray, one of the researchers, said. Alcohol labelling “needs to be … Read More →
21 May 2018 — A German court has ruled that beer can’t be described as “wholesome” or imply that drinking it is beneficial to health after a consumer rights group challenged a brewer which has been using a specific German term in its advertising since around 1900. The German word “bekoemmlich” does not have a … Read More →
The agency is investigating how money for the study was raised and whether it is still worth pursuing; by Andrew Joseph, STAT on May 19, 2018 The National Institutes of Health has suspended enrollment in a study aimed at investigating whether moderate alcohol consumption helps cardiovascular health following concerns over the alcoholic beverage industry’s role in the … Read More →
Gray Robinson PA USA May 10 2018 Introduction Suppliers and retailers of alcoholic beverages advertise their respective products and offerings in a wide variety of digital outlets. Questions arise as to how the complex legal landscape of alcohol regulation applies in these digital spaces. Advertising media include social network services (e.g., Facebook), video sharing sites … Read More →
Civil society organisations (CSOs) have urged the government to be cautious of promises by alcohol industry of protecting the health and safety of consumers. They said they were deeply worried about a meeting held between the industry and government agencies, and that the alcohol industry had a clear conflict of interest. The meeting brought together … Read More →
Alcohol advertising curbs ‘may be against EU laws’ Article John Downing in Irish Independent, May 8 2018 The European Commission has warned Health Minister Simon Harris that curbs on alcohol advertising appear to break EU laws. The commission has also challenged plans for a warning linking cancer and alcohol on drink bottles and cans, … Read More →
The Alcohol Policy Network recently published their position paper on ‘Guidance on the Alcohol Industry and Alcohol Policy’. May 2018 INTRODUCTION The Alcohol Policy Network (APN) is a group of persons working in governmental and in non-governmental organizations with an interest in developing and promoting alcohol policies and strategies that serve public health and … Read More →