Health Secretary, Wes Streeting, vowed to protect children’s health to deal with high caffeine energy drinks, a single can compared to a single can compared to “the four cokes’ necks”.
Mr. Streeting revealed that eight out of 10 parents, an important majority, support the ban on the sale of these powerful beverages to children.
Teachers are also giving voice to concerns, as they told the BBC breakfast on Wednesday, as they “look at the concentration of children, their learning, the effects of these drinks on their behavior”.
In response, The government has started consulting 12 weeks The period on this issue, with a plan to implement rapid changes as much as possible.
Meanwhile, doctors have warned of the long -term effects of these high caffeine energy drinks, many of them are filled with Chinese – this item can only one of the stuff. Coke,” He said.
“You can see the effect on health, concentration, learning, and that’s why we are acting.
“And … to ensure that it not only works in principle, but in practice, we are consulting a small, sharp, 12-week with businesses, learning from retail vendors who are already working how it is working in behavior, so that we can expand to all retailers instead of doing this with them …
“We promised to do so by the end of this Parliament, but in practice, it will come very soon.”
Asked if the parents should be able to make their decisions about consuming their children, Mr. Streeting said: “I think this is the issue of personal choice, personal responsibility, the issue of personal responsibility, where we will come in the context of adults, but when it comes to children’s health and good children, we adopt a different attitude.
“And I think one of the things I was killed is that we have found a parents who are urging to work to help them, because to be fair for Mams and Dads who I think I feel that their children are worried about the health and nutrition, then all this is very well when Mams and Dads have purchased their children but they are going to school again, And lunchtime, buying one of these drinks, and then one is happening on the way to the house.
“It is too much caffeine, it is too much sugar, and parents do not necessarily know.”
He said “My constituency office is right to one of my local secondary schools”, saying: “I have found a shop down a few doors, and I see it, I have got me, I have got my eyes and ears.
“Is it a cloud of vapor, which I am seeing that the children are on the way to the house from the evaporation of the school, or is it running on the road with a large can or a large can or other energy drink of Prime, I look at it with my own eyes, and I understand why parents are worried, why are teachers worry …”
Under the new schemes, selling energy drinks would be illegal with all retail vendors over a caffeine more than 150mg per liter, including all, which include online, shops, restaurants, cafes and vending machines.
Lower-coffee cool drink-like coca, cola, coca, cola zero, diet coke and papsi are not affected, nor are there tea and coffee.
However, high-capin energy drinks such as red bull, monster, tireless and Prime will dissolve all boundaries.
Major supermarkets including Tesco, Censor, Wetroz, Morrison and Asda have already stopped selling the drinks to the youth, but Health department Said that research shows that some small facility stores are still selling them to children.
According to ministers, a restriction can prevent obesity in 40,000 children and will help prevent issues such as disrupted sleep, increased anxiety and lack of concentration, as well as poor results of school.
Drinks containing more than 150mg per liter per liter already carry a warning label, stating that they are not recommended for children.
Gavin Partington, Director General of the British Soft Drink Association, said the firms do not have a beverage marketing or boost for the under -16.
He said: “Our members have led the route in self-regulations through our long-running energy drink code of practice.
“Our members do not bring or promote the sale of energy drinks for the Under -16 and do not promote all high -caffeen beverages as ‘not recommended for children’, as a sense of this code.
“With all government policy, it is necessary that any upcoming regulation is based on the rigorous evaluation of available evidence.”
Professor Steve Turner, President of the Royal College of Pediatrics and Child Health, said: “Pediatricians are very clear that children or adolescents do not require energy drinks.
“Young people get their energy from sleep, a healthy balanced diet, regular exercise and meaningful relationship with family and friends.
“There is no evidence that caffeine or other stimulants in these products offer any nutritional or developmental benefits – in fact, research and moving towards serious risks for mental health.”
James Lowan, Chief Executive Officer of the Association of Facility Store, said: “Most of the facility stores already have a voluntary age ban on energy drinks, and will welcome the clarity of regulation on the issue.”
Somewhere else, Mr. Streeting said that he was “running” with the British Medical Association (BMA), which staged NHS attacks in summer.
He said that the five -day strike proceedings were “not as bad as it could be due to the hard work of the frontline staff coming to work, and to minimize the work of NHS leaders, but there was disruption, and this is my problem”.
He said: “We have spent the recent weeks in conversation with BMA. They are going on. The best I don’t provide a running commentary on it, because we want to try in the person instead of conversation and talk through airwaves, but they are going on, and I think it’s a good thing.”