ArticleBMC public health2023
Do Brazilian regulatory measures promote sustainable and healthy eating in the school food environment?
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- School food environment: analysis of school canteens in Brazilian capitals and implications for public policy.BMC public health · 2026Article
- Do Higher-Quality Regulatory Measures Promote a Healthier School Food Environment?International journal of environmental research and public health · 2026Article
- Temporal evolution of the food environment in Brazilian public and private schools: analysis of Brazil's National Student Health Survey (PeNSE) (2012, 2015 and 2019).BMC public health · 2025Article
- What Is There to Buy? An Analysis of the Food Environment in Public and Private Schools in the Federal District.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2025Article
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- [Impact of Regulation of the School Food Environment: methodological aspects and participation in the first year of follow-up].Cadernos de saude publica · 2025Article
- Integrated health and nutrition approaches to school feeding: maximising future human capital in Latin America and the Caribbean.Frontiers in public health · 2024Review
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Abstract
backgroundRegulatory measures regarding food in the school environment aim to promote a healthier food environment in public and private schools. In Brazil, implementing regulations in the school food environment does not occur the same way across states and cities, and no national regulation covers public and private schools. The present study aims to analyze regulatory measures for school food environments in Brazilian states and cities and develop a score to evaluate them.
methodsA systematic search of the regulatory measures in force and implemented until 2021 was conducted. The score was developed based on the Model Law Project prepared by the Brazilian Institute for Consumer Protection. It considered food and nutrition education actions, restrictions on the sale and distribution of food, a ban or restriction on food advertising and marketing, and points of excellence. These points included regulations that addressed the importance of supervision and social control, laws regulated by decree, the mention of a ban on ultra-processed foods, and whether the regulatory measures covered public and private schools.
resultsSixty-five cities and states regulatory measures in force were found to be evaluated jointly by a federal entity (n = 43). Among the federal entities evaluated, only 13.95% fulfilled the function of promoting sustainable and healthy eating (8-12 points).
conclusionsBrazilian children and adolescents are exposed to a school food environment with regulations that partially fulfill the function of promoting an adequate, healthy, and sustainable diet. In this sense, it is necessary to improve regulatory measures or to encourage states and cities to develop effective legal provisions that are in line with the food guide for the Brazilian population and with the perspective of a healthy school food environment for the effective promotion of adequate, healthy and sustainable and healthy food in schools.
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