May 4th, 2006
Bottlers Agree to a School Ban on Sweet Drinks
By Marian Burros and Melanie Warner
The New York Times
The country’s top three soft-drink companies announced yesterday that beginning this fall they would start removing sweetened drinks like Coke, Pepsi and iced teas from school cafeterias and vending machines in response to the growing threat of lawsuits and state legislation.
Mr. Ruskin criticized it because it did not address soft-drink advertising in schools and did not stop bottlers from advertising on Channel One, which is shown to seven million schoolchildren a day.