Authors: National Program for Healthy Eating and Prevention of Obesity, Ministry of Health, Presidency of the Nation
August 22, 2017 – The National Program for Healthy Eating and Prevention of Obesity (Res 732/16) is presented, with its strategies for promotion, dissemination, regulation in healthy environments such as Work, University, Municipalities and Schools.
Authors: Dominican Republic Ministry of Public Health
October 3, 2019 – Regulation that grants deadlines to adapt to current food and beverage labeling regulations.
Author: Ministry of Health Ecuador
2013 – Regulation to control the labeling of processed foods for human consumption to provide information on the characteristics of those foods
Authors: Teresa Correa; Camila Fierro; Marcela Reyes; Francesca R. Dillman Carpentier; Lindsey Smith Taillie; Camila Corvalan
2019 – In line with calls for action from international health organizations, Chile implemented in June 2016 a set of regulations to tackle the obesity epidemic. The new regulation includes the mandatory use of front-of-package warning labels on packaged foods/beverages high in energy, sugars, saturated fats and sodium. Additionally, such foods cannot be sold nor offered in daycares/schools and cannot be promoted to children under 14yo. The law is targeted to children; thus, this study examined mothersā understanding, perceptions, and behaviors associated with the regulation one year after its implementation, using a qualitative approach.
Authors: Lizbeth Tolentino-Mayo. SofĆa RincĆ³n-Gallardo PatiƱo. Liliana Bahena-Espina. VĆctor RĆos. SimĆ³n Barquera.
May / June 2018 – Document the knowledge and use of the information of the different labels placed on industrialized products in Mexico. For this, a subsample of the National Survey of Health and Nutrition Midway 2016 was carried out, and a semi-structured questionnaire was applied. As conclusions of the work, the implementation of a fast-to-read and easy-to-understand front labeling with nutritional criteria was proposed that guarantee compliance with what is stated in official documents and the standardization of the percentage of sugar consumption to that recommended by the WHO or to a lesser amount.
Authors: Teresa Correa; Camila Fierro; Marcela Reyes; Francesca R. Dillman Carpentier; Lindsey Smith Taillie; Camila Corvalan
2019 –
In line with calls for action from international health organizations, Chile implemented in June 2016 a set of regulations to tackle the obesity epidemic. The new regulation includes the mandatory use of front-of-package warning labels on packaged foods/beverages high in energy, sugars, saturated fats and sodium. Additionally, such foods cannot be sold nor offered in daycare/schools and cannot be promoted to children under 14yo. The law is targeted to children; thus, this study examined mothersā understanding, perceptions, and behaviors associated with the regulation one year after its implementation, using a qualitative approach.
