Children will no longer be involved in promoting non-recommended food. An order to this sense was signed by the Minister of Health, Ruxandra Glavan. From this list are products with high content of sugars, fat, salt, food additives, which have a higher nutritional value of 300 kilo-calories per 100 grams.

Thus, children will not be involved in advertising caramels, chocolate, chips, burgers, sandwiches, pizza, sausages, salted peanuts, soft drinks and energy drinks. It is also forbidden to promote the involvement of minors at spices such as vinegar, mustard, pepper, horseradish, ketchup, pepper and other similar products.

By order of the Ministry of Health, the chief doctors of Public Health Centers will be responsible for supervising the institutions of general education of children rational nutrition and lack of information and promotional advertising for foods that endanger the health of preschool students and students.

According to the Administrative Code, those who do not observe these provisions will be sanctioned with a fine ranging from 10 to 150 conventional units for individuals and from 100 to 500 conventional units for legal entities.

Source: ipn.md