Current food labelling practices in online supermarkets in Australia.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Food product labelling can support consumer decision-making. Several food product labels (nutrition information panels (NIPs), ingredients lists, allergen declarations and country-of-origin) are mandated for physical product packaging in Australia, with a voluntary front-of-pack nutrition labelling system, Health Star Ratings (HSRs), also available. However, labelling requirements are not explicitly extended to online settings and the extent to which this information is available in these increasingly important food environments has not been assessed.

Methods

Data from all individual food product pages was collected from the online stores of the two dominant supermarket retailers in Australia using automated web scraping in April-May 2022 (n = 22,077 products coll

SUBMITTER: Maganja D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10521447 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature