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Politics
Government implementing stricter age checks for online alcohol sales
13 July 2025 - 07:45
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Crime
Authorities seize 80,000 flavored vapes from warehouse near Schiphol
13 July 2025 - 07:15
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Supermarket
HealthBusiness
Reward supermarkets for selling healthy food, Advice Council says
16 December 2024 - 08:36
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Grocery shopping
HealthBusiness
Supermarkets still pushing unhealthy foods despite agreements
26 November 2024 - 09:45
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Health
Netherlands missing all preventive health targets: Too much smoking, alcohol, obesity
17 January 2024 - 11:50
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Health
Number of heavy drinkers has remained unchanged since 2014
20 April 2023 - 14:00
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Junk food
Health
Half of Dutch adults still overweight
11 March 2022 - 10:30
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Health
NL still far from reaching healthy lifestyle targets
14 March 2021 - 08:45
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Unhealthy food
HealthFood
Health funds want gov't to legally regulate sugar, salt, fat in foods
14 February 2021 - 08:45
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Health
Healthy lunches, more exercise in primary school to help fight childhood obesity
8 November 2020 - 11:59
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Supermarket
HealthBusinessCultureFood
Supermarkets doing little to encourage healthy choices: study
13 October 2020 - 09:43
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Cigarettes
BusinessHealth
Tobacco lobby used ruling party to influence smoking policy: report
24 August 2020 - 09:10
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BusinessHealth
More cafes ban smoking on outdoor terraces
30 July 2019 - 09:27
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Grocery shopping
BusinessFoodHealth
Almost all specials in Dutch supermarkets unhealthy: report
24 June 2019 - 08:49
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Health
Netherlands to impose boring packaging on cigarettes from 2020
26 April 2019 - 10:40
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FoodHealth
Consumers assoc. wants to introduce color-coded scores to show how healthy products are
9 April 2019 - 11:50
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Health
Half of Dutch overweight, nearly a quarter are smokers
19 March 2019 - 10:00

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