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Response from the World Cancer Research Fund to the UK Government consultation on the application of the 2018 Nutrient Profile Model to restrictions on the marketing and promotion of less healthy foods. The submission sets out strong support for the proposed policy and includes recommendations to strengthen its impact on cancer prevention.

Submitted June 2026.

Response from World Cancer Research Fund to the UK government’s consultation on ‘Growing up in an online world’, setting out the need to protect children and young people from alcohol and junk food marketing online.

Submitted May 2026.

Response from World Cancer Research Fund to the UK government’s consultation questions 149, 158 and 161 on promoting healthy communities and tackling childhood obesity as part of proposed changes to the National Planning Policy Framework. March 2026.

Briefing from World Cancer Research Fund setting out what actions the Plan commits to on prevention and progress on implementation between July 2025 and March 2026.

Briefing from World Cancer Research Fund setting out what actions the Plan commits to on prevention and where it needs to go further in order to adequately tackle modifiable risk factors for cancer and reduce incidence. March 2026.

World Cancer Research Fund International’s response to the EU call for evidence related to the Audiovisual media services directive (AVMSD). Submitted December 2025.

Response from World Cancer Research Fund ahead of the UK Autumn Budget 2025, in support of an alcohol duty, minimum unit pricing, expanded soft drinks industry levy and uplifted public health grant. Submitted October 2025.

World Cancer Research Fund International’s comments on the UK government’s consultation on advertising restrictions on TV and online for products high in fat, salt and sugar.

Submitted June 2019.

World Cancer Research Fund International comments on the public consultation on the Norwegian government’s proposal for a new regulation on the prohibition of marketing of certain foods aimed at children and a proposal for a new authority, in the Food Act Section 26 a, to be able to impose fines for violations of the regulation.

Submitted November 2024.

World Cancer Research Fund International’s response to the WHO’s consultation on the UN Decade of Action on Nutrition 2016-2025: priority actions on nutrition for the next five years.

Submitted 2021.

This brief was developed by World Cancer Research Fund International and NCD Alliance. It focuses on SMART commitments that target overweight and obesity and nutrition-related non-communicable diseases (NCDs). It illustrates how recommendations from the Second International Conference on Nutrition (ICN2) Framework for Action can be translated into SMART policy commitments.

The brief is available in summary and extended versions in English, as well as in French, Portuguese and Spanish.

Published in 2016–17.

Our response to the public consultation for the modification of the norm on food and beverage labelling in Mexico.

Submitted December 2019.