Autorregulación en la publicidad de alimentos para niños a través de PAOS: un estudio internacional

Abstract

Children's lack of experience before advertising messages makes selfregulation an important topic for diverse agents in the industry, in order to protect children against the potentially dangerous effects of ads. In Spain food advertising focused in children is self-regulated by PAOS Code. The aim of this article is to identify, by content analysis, similarities and differences between PAOS and other international codes. The results show the concern about this topic is not only expressed in specific codes for children, but also in codes for other audiences, and that discrepancies between codes are determined by requisites of the online advertising.