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Four major federal agencies with responsibilities for regulating food, beverage and restaurant products and overseeing marketing and
advertising have placed thousands of companies throughout America in an impossible regulatory bind. The Interagency Working Group on Food
Marketed to Children (IWG), made up of USDA, CDC, FDA and the FTC, has just produced an elaborate set of new standards for the content of
food products.  These powerful agencies have said that no company should advertise food products that fail to meet the rigid standards
to anyone under 18 years of age.

Of the 100 most popular foods consumed in America, only 12 would meet the new proposed standards. Foods like whole wheat bread, yogurt, 2%milk and thousands of others fail to pass muster. 

But it gets worse.

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