ArticlePublic health nutrition2021
Analysis of the policy process for the implementation of nutritional warning labels in Uruguay.
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- Systematic review of nutrient profile models for front-of-pack nutrition labelling.Nature food · 2026Pooled it
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- Stakeholder perspectives on Nigeria's national sodium reduction program: Lessons for implementation and scale-up.PloS one · 2023Article
- Design and approval of the nutritional warnings' policy in Peru: Milestones, key stakeholders, and policy drivers for its approval.PLOS global public health · 2023Article
- Analysis of stakeholders' responses to the food warning labels regulation in Mexico.Health research policy and systems · 2022Article
- Consumers' Response to Sugar Label Formats in Packaged Foods: A Multi-Methods Study in Brazil.Frontiers in nutrition · 2022Article
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Abstract
objectiveTo analyse the process for the development and implementation of mandatory nutritional warning labels in Uruguay, in order to inform future nutrition policy making and strategic engagement by public health actors.
designThe study design drew on policy analysis methodology and case study research methodology. Two main sources of information were selected and analysed for the current study: eighteen official documents from the Uruguayan government and 259 news reports, published between June 2017 and February 2021.
settingUruguay, Latin America.
resultsThe Uruguayan Ministry of Public Health led a cross-sectoral working group composed of diverse governmental stakeholders, international organisations and the academia to develop the front-of-package nutrition labelling policy. A robust evidence-based approach, based on rigorous scientific knowledge generated in the country, was followed. However, changes in the systemic governing coalition as a consequence of a change in government led to a delay in the entry into force and changes in the regulation. The food industry was the main opponent to the warning label regulation and relied on widely reported corporate political activities to influence the policy process: information and messaging, legal action, policy substitution, opposition, fragmentation and destabilisation.
conclusionsKey insights to inform future policy action in Uruguay and other jurisdictions were derived. Results stressed the importance of an evidence-based approach for policy design and the early engagement with actors from all the political system.
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