Viveat Susan Pinto / Mumbai July 21, 2010, 1:16 IST

Chocolate major Cadbury will join the group of companies which yesterday pledged they would not advertise their food & beverage products to children below 12 years.

Mumbai: Seven major food and beverage companies have signed a unique pledge committing themselves to responsible advertising and marketing to children. This is the first such self-regulatory pledge in India on the lines of the one in the European Union.

State Commerce and Industries Minister Pradyut Bardoloi today told the Assembly that the State Government was against any subsidy for coke industries and that no new coke industrial units had come up in the State since 2006.

McDonald

Mumbai: Maharashtra

Gargi Parsai

NEW DELHI: The Food Processing Ministry will give priority to farmers, self-help groups and women for providing grant-in-aid in setting up food processing enterprises. It has also identified Bihar, Orissa, Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh and Jammu and Kashmir for preferential treatment in financial support to set up food processing units.

Shaju Philip

Rejecting opposition from the Industries Ministry, Kerala Cabinet on Wednesday decided to form a tribunal to assess and realise compensation from Coca Cola for the damage caused by its bottling plant at Plachimada in Palakkad.