Governing Council adopts 20 new APHA policies.

RULES; AMERICAN Public Health Association; TOBACCO; PREVENTION of obesity; TRANS fatty acids; CLIMATE change; ANNUAL meetings

The article reports on the new policies adopted by the Governing Council of the American Public Health Association (APHA) during its 135th Annual Meeting in Washington D.C. in November 2007. The policies support strengthening laws on tobacco-free schools, advocate increasing access to healthy foods as a means to combat obesity and urge the U.S. to state that it will not pre-emptively attack Iran. Other focuses of the policies are trans fat, climate change and toxic substances. Governing Council members also voted to archive about a dozen of outdated and older policies of the association.