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Mexico City – 1 April 2025
1. Various of children walking down street, seen from behind
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Mexico City – 31 March 2025
2. Elementary school sign
3. Relatives waiting to pick up children from school; junk food stand in foreground
4. Street vendors looking after stand selling junk food in front of school
5. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Brenda Gonzalez, 36, parent:
"We had been asked that (the children) bring healthy food — that the parents should provide them with a healthy lunch. But then the children come here and they can buy junk food. And obviously, as children, they choose the junk food over the food they bring from home. So, I think the measure (junk food ban) is perfect for children to eat healthier and not have the food we don’t want them to eat within their reach."
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Mexico City – 1 April 2025
6. People walking down street
7. Close of potato chips being fried
8. Close of street vendor chopping pork
9. Banner at street stand reading (Spanish), "Mexican snacks"
10. Various of people eating food
11. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Liliana Bahena Espino, activist at NGO The Power of the Consumer:
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"In Mexico, we have a serious public health problem. Already 40% of children and adolescents live with obesity and 50% will develop diabetes in early adulthood. This regulation within schools prohibits all products with black warning labels such as excess sugars and fats, and allows healthy foods and access to drinking water."
12. People walking past sign reading (Spanish): "Gummies and snacks — 5 pesos ($0.25) the bag"
13. Gummies on display
14. Various close of black warning logos on junk food packages
15. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Dr. Martha Kaufer Horwitz, head of Mexico’s Institute of Health Sciences and Nutrition:
"There is no interference or authority (of the schools) over what happens outside the school gates. So, this is going to be a challenge. We will also have to raise awareness among parents so that they do not buy or give money to their children to buy what is outside the school before they enter or right after they leave."
16. Close of Kaufer Horwitz
17. Close of Kaufer Horwitz’s hands
18. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Dr. Martha Kaufer Horwitz, head of Mexico’s Institute of Health Sciences and Nutrition:
"The current guidelines do include monitoring strategies, which is also very interesting because that is what was missing the last time (a junk food ban was attempted) — that there is real monitoring and that (non-compliance) is corrected."
19. Children playing at playground
20. Various of children with backpacks walking
STORYLINE:
A government-sponsored junk food ban in schools across Mexico took effect on Saturday, as the country tries to tackle one of the world’s worst obesity and diabetes epidemics.
The health guidelines, first published last fall, take a direct shot at salty and sweet processed products that have become a staple for generations of Mexican schoolchildren, such as sugary fruit drinks, packaged chips, artificial pork rinds and soy-encased, chili-flavored peanuts.
Mexico’s ambitious attempt to remake its food culture and reprogram the next generation of consumers is being watched closely around the world as governments struggle to turn the tide on a global obesity epidemic.
Under Mexico’s new order, schools must phase out any food and beverage displaying even one black warning logo marking it as high in salt, sugar, calories and fat.
Mexico implemented that compulsory front-of-package labeling system in 2020.
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