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For Immediate Release: Contact: Clyde Ensslin
July 5, 2007 202-418-0506
Extension of Task Force
on Media and Childhood Obesity
Washington, DC – The Joint Task Force on Media and Childhood Obesity is being 
extended through the end of the summer.  The Task Force, whose participants include 
representatives from the media, advertising, and food and beverage industries, will hold its 
final meeting and release its formal report by early September.   
Since convening for its first meeting in March, the Task Force has been considering 
the impact of the media on the rise in childhood obesity rates and a variety of measures to 
address this alarming trend.  
The extension will enable the Task Force to continue to identify ways in which the 
media industry, along with the advertising, and food and beverage industries, tackles food 
marketing to children in order to reduce the rates of childhood obesity.
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Note: While the Federal Communications Commission participates in the Task Force on Media and Childhood 
Obesity, it does not manage or control its activities.