Policy domain | Description |
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Food composition | Policies or standards to improve the nutritional quality of the food supply, in particular processed foods and out-of-home meals, e.g., maximum sodium levels, trans fat ban, sugar reduction schemes. |
Food labelling | Policies on food labelling to help consumers make healthier, informed choices, e.g., standards for ingredient lists/nutrient declarations; health and nutrition claims; front-of-pack labelling schemes and menu labelling. |
Food promotion | Policies that restrict unhealthy food promotion (marketing) to children and adolescents across relevant media and contexts (i.e., broadcast media, online and social media, non-broadcast media, settings where children gather and on food packages). |
Food prices | Economic tools to incentivize healthy food purchases and disincentive unhealthy food purchases (food taxes and subsidies); food-related income support programs aimed at low SEP groups. |
Food provision | Policies to promote healthy foods in schools and other public settings, e.g. nutrition standards for school meals; government-developed guidelines and support systems for food provision (for employees) in private companies |
Food retail | Policies to improve access to healthy food and limit access to unhealthy foods in communities (e.g., zoning laws). Government-developed guidelines and support systems, targeted at the private sector, to promote healthier foods within food outlets or restaurants. |
Food trade and investmenta | Measures to identify and minimize negative impacts of trade agreements on public health and nutrition and protect governmental regulatory capacity in relation to investments that may impact public health. |