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Waitrose bans sale of energy drinks to under-16s
4th January 2018
Corporate Social Responsibility and Information Economics in action! Waitrose has announced a ban on sales of energy drinks to under-16s. Will other supermarkets follow suit? Only a small percentage of students get their energy drinks from Waitrose!
Recent research from the BMJ found that he sugar, calorie and caffeine content in energy drinks was high.
Waitrose bans sale of energy drinks to under-16s https://t.co/PtxAvXFIXA
— Guardian Business (@BusinessDesk) January 4, 2018
I co-authored a new study on the amount of #sugar, energy and #caffeine in sugar-sweetened drinks marketed and consumed as energy drinks in the UK between 2015 & 2017: monitoring #reformulation progress @actiononsugar @BMJ_Open #energydrinks https://t.co/JNt5iMbvEK pic.twitter.com/QXgEYvCIxK
— Dr Kawther H MSc RNutr PhD (@KawtherH) December 15, 2017
.@waitrose are banning the sale of high-caffeine #energydrinks to children under 16. They carry the warning label 'not recommended for children', after all. @sainsburys will you commit to doing the same? #Sainsburys https://t.co/gfRZ5xkFLB
— Action On Sugar (@actiononsugar) January 4, 2018
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Geoff Riley
Geoff Riley FRSA has been teaching Economics for over thirty years. He has over twenty years experience as Head of Economics at leading schools. He writes extensively and is a contributor and presenter on CPD conferences in the UK and overseas.
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