Front-of-Pack Labeling in Chile: Effects on Employment, Real Wages, and Firms’ Profits after Three Years of Its Implementation

Paraje, Guillermo; Oca, Daniela Montes de; Canales, Mario; Popkin, Barry M.

doi:10.3390/nu14020295

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“…When adding menu labelling was in play in California and in King County, Washington, the food industry raised concerns about implementation costs [ 37 , 38 ]. In the case of income and profits, there is no scientific evidence supporting this; on the contrary, an evaluation of the effects of Chile’s FOPL on employment, salaries and gross profits of companies showed that there was no effect on these variables [ 47 ].…”

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Analysis of stakeholders’ responses to the food warning labels regulation in Mexico

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Rivera‐Dommarco

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Background In Mexico, the inclusion of a front-of-pack label in the Official Mexican Standard 051 (NOM-051 for its Spanish acronym) has been widely discussed for years by different stakeholder groups. In 2019, the NOM-051 modification project was proposed, which included front-of-pack warning labels. To be modified, it underwent a public consultation period where stakeholders sent their comments to be reviewed and considered. The purpose of this study was to analyse the stakeholders’ perspectives during the public consultation of the NOM-051 modification project. Methods To assess perspectives, the 795 comments available on the National Commission for Regulatory Improvement website were analysed. Identity, expectations and demands were identified from each comment using content analysis in NVivo. In addition, frequencies and percentages were obtained. Results Fifty-six percent of the comments were opposed to the NOM-051 modification project. Industry and business interest nongovernmental organizations were against it; they considered that their revenues and profits would be affected. Public interest nongovernmental organizations, academia and health professionals were in favour, stating that the changes proposed are fundamental to informing consumers and improving food choices, and an essential factor in reducing the prevalence of overweight and obesity. Stakeholders in favour expected that eating habits would improve, and demanded that the front-of-pack warning label suggested in the modification proposal be maintained. Conclusions The comments opposed to the NOM-051 modification project were consistent with the literature, indicating that food industry stakeholders use all possible arguments to interfere in public health policies. The main issues used by the food industry to discredit the NOM-051 modification project coincide with those used in other countries to stop public health policies and with those used by the tobacco industry to avoid market regulations. On the other hand, those in favour looked after the interests of the Mexican population.

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Analysis of stakeholders’ responses to the food warning labels regulation in Mexico

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“…A well-designed warning label can help to combat obesity especially, and some studies suggest that on a daily basis, consumers are subjected to many messages about low-nutrient foods-particularly, close to the point of sale [48]. On the other hand, it has been already proven that labels including health warnings-especially those that include a combination of image and text-are likely to decrease the number of energy-dense snacks purchased online [10]. The analysis of the answers provided by the group of Polish respondents allowed us to conclude that they see the need to take action aimed at reducing the consumption of sweetened beverages.…”

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“…In the last several years, sugar consumption has been a subject of public health-related debates aimed at answering the following question: how to efficiently decrease the intake of added/free sugar in society. Across the world, many strategies have been used, including sugar tax [6], nutritional claims, warning labels [7,8], or imposing limits on the TV and radio advertising of high-sugar products, especially prohibiting the marketing of high-sugar products to children [9,10]. Quite often, individual governments choose fiscal policy tools such as sugar tax as the first action aiming to decrease, e.g., purchasing sugar-sweetened beverages, which has also been recently recommended by the WHO.…”

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Sugar Tax or What? The Perspective and Preferences of Consumers

Piekara

2022

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Reducing high-calorie food and beverages consumption is a multi-dimensional challenge spanning agriculture to food marketing. Adverse health effects resulting from sugar-sweetened beverages such as obesity, diabetes, cardiovascular disease or dental carries have been described on numerous occasions. Poland is one of the countries that have introduced the sugar tax. The study aims to understand the degree of consumers’ awareness of the upcoming changes and their opinions and assessments of the efficiency of various activities. The study was based on Computer-Assisted Web Interview (CAWI). The sample comprised 500 adult consumers. Most of the respondents (69.6%) are aware that a new charge for sweetened beverages is going to be introduced, and for 78.9% of the respondents, it is important to take action aimed at reducing the consumption of sweetened beverages by consumers. Well-educated respondents as well as women perceive a greater degree of need to take specific action within the area of health policy (p-value 0.010 and 0.000 respectively). The sugar tax is considered an effective tool for limiting the purchase of sweetened products. Other types of activities within the framework of preventative healthcare that aim to reduce the consumption of sugar by society should also be developed.

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“…The food industry, at that time, claimed that the law would lead to decreases in corporate income, and thus an adverse outlook on employment in Chile, and also claimed that the law would breach international trade agreements. However, these intimidation tactics did not work and their predictions did not materialize once the law was adopted (Paraje et al 2021(Paraje et al , 2022. Nevertheless, these arguments have continued to be used in other countries (Crosbie, Carriedo, and Schmidt 2022).…”

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A discussion of stronger public policies to protect and promote healthy diets: what can the U.S. learn from other countries?

Mialon¹,

Naik²

2023

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The aim of this paper is to contribute to global discussion on public health policies for protecting and promoting healthy diets, as it is advancing in the U.S. This discussion assesses specific cases of successful policy making from several countries across the world, often against industry resistance. We discuss five key public policies and interventions: i) food labeling; ii) marketing restrictions and healthy school food policies; iii) fiscal policies; iv) models for classifying the (un)healthiness of a product; v) interventions to address food industry influence and conflicts of interest in public health policy. The paper also argues how the U.S can adapt or adopt some of these public policies, while also preparing for the challenges from the ultra-processed food industry that may perceive these advances as threats to its business. We conclude the discussion by postulating that the U.S. is primed to advance several of these initiatives that have already been espoused in law and evaluated to be effective in other countries. The U.S. will have unique challenges, as many of the food industry actors have deep political influence on American politics and markets, although these global lessons can enable the legislative, policy, and civil society ecosystems with additional tools and strategies to progress policy movement toward defending people’s health and wellbeing over industry’s influence and profit.

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Front-of-Pack Labeling in Chile: Effects on Employment, Real Wages, and Firms’ Profits after Three Years of Its Implementation

Cited by 16 publications

References 21 publications

Analysis of stakeholders’ responses to the food warning labels regulation in Mexico

Analysis of stakeholders’ responses to the food warning labels regulation in Mexico

Sugar Tax or What? The Perspective and Preferences of Consumers

A discussion of stronger public policies to protect and promote healthy diets: what can the U.S. learn from other countries?

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