'I had never seen so many lobbyists': food industry political practices during the development of a new nutrition front-of-pack labelling system in Colombia.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To identify and monitor food industry use of political practices during the adoption of nutrition warning labels (WL) in Colombia.

Design

Document analysis of publicly available information triangulated with interviews.

Setting

Colombia.

Participants

Eighteen key informants from the government (n 2), academia (n 1), civil society (n 12), the media (n 2) and a former food industry employee (n 1).

Results

In Colombia, the food industry used experts and groups funded by large transnationals to promote its preferred front-of-pack nutrition labelling (FOPL) and discredit the proposed warning models. The industry criticised the proposed WL, discussing the negative impacts they would have on trade, the excessive costs required to implement them and th

SUBMITTER: Mialon M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10195544 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature