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Issue No. 09-51
For the week of December 14, 2009

COMMISSION MEETINGS

Mon. Dec. 14
2:30 p.m.		 Closed to the public: Consideration of an enforcement action in a nonpublic Part II matter.

HEARINGS/TESTIMONY BEFORE CONGRESS
(Dates and times are subject to change by Congress)

Nothing Scheduled

WORKSHOPS/CONFERENCES

Tues. Dec. 15 The Federal Trade Commission will host a public forum titled, “Sizing Up Food Marketing and Childhood Obesity.” The forum will assemble industry representatives, federal regulators, consumer groups, scientific researchers, and legal scholars to discuss issues related to food marketing to children. The forum will discuss current research on the impact of food advertising on children, and the statutory and constitutional issues surrounding governmental regulation of food marketing. Panelists also will address the food and entertainment industries’ progress toward self-regulation and implementation of the recommendations in the FTC’s 2008 report, Marketing Foods to Children and Adolescents: A Review of Industry Expenditures, Activities, and Self-Regulation. In addition, the Interagency Working Group on Food Marketed to Children – comprised of representatives from the FTC, Food and Drug Administration, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and U.S. Department of Agriculture – will report on the status of recommended nutritional standards for foods marketed to children.

The forum is free and open to the public (Valid Government Issued Photo ID’s are Required). It will be held at the FTC’s Conference Center, 601 New Jersey Avenue, NW, Washington, DC

SPEECHES

Mon. Dec. 15
8:45 a.m.
 FTC Chairman Jon Leibowitz will give the welcome remarks at the FTC Sizing Up Food Marketing and Childhood Obesity forum. FTC Conference Center, 601 New Jersey Avenue, NW, Washington, DC
10:45 a.m. Pauline Ippolito, Deputy Director of the FTC’s Bureau of Economics will co-moderate a panel discussion on, “New Research on Food Marketing to Children,” at the FTC Sizing Up Food Marketing and Childhood Obesity forum. FTC Conference Center, 601 New Jersey Avenue, NW, Washington, DC
11:15 a.m. David C. Vladeck, Director of the FTC’s Bureau of Consumer Protection will moderate a panel discussion on, “Advertising to Children and the First Amendment,” at the FTC Sizing Up Food Marketing and Childhood Obesity forum. FTC Conference Center, 601 New Jersey Avenue, NW, Washington, DC
4:45 p.m. David C. Vladeck, Director of the FTC’s Bureau of Consumer Protection will give closing remarks at the FTC Sizing Up Food Marketing and Childhood Obesity forum. FTC Conference Center, 601 New Jersey Avenue, NW, Washington, DC

HEARINGS BEFORE ADMINISTRATIVE LAW JUDGES

Nothing Scheduled

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