{"id":79978,"date":"2017-03-24T12:10:23","date_gmt":"2017-03-24T12:10:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=01c88db83cd744f8a3ae5cf460c62fc8"},"modified":"2017-03-24T12:10:23","modified_gmt":"2017-03-24T12:10:23","slug":"news-story-alcohol-industry-updating-the-health-information-on-its-labels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=79978","title":{"rendered":"News story: Alcohol industry updating the health information on its labels"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>The Department of Health worked closely with industry on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/publications\/communicating-the-uk-chief-medical-officers-alcohol-guidelines\">guidance for this labelling<\/a>, to better reflect the latest advice on alcohol published by the UK Chief Medical Officers last year.<\/p>\n<p>Public Health Minister Nicola Blackwood said:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The right to enjoy a drink responsibly is part of our national culture, and we want to ensure that adults have clear information in order to make informed choices.<\/p>\n<p class=\"last-child\">This change is industry-led, and I welcome this commitment to giving clear and factual information to consumers.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/publications\/alcohol-consumption-advice-on-low-risk-drinking\">The UK Chief Medical Officers\u2019 low-risk alcohol guidelines<\/a>, released in 2016, aim to help people understand the risks alcohol may pose to their health, as part of the Government\u2019s common sense approach to this issue.<\/p>\n<p>They are based on the latest scientific information and represent the most comprehensive review of the evidence on alcohol in 20 years.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The alcohol industry is updating the health information on its labels, to reflect the latest scientific evidence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79978"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=79978"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79978\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=79978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=79978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=79978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}