Food Environment After Implementation of a Healthy Checkout Policy.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

In March 2021, Berkeley, California, became the world's first jurisdiction to implement a healthy checkout policy, which sets nutrition standards for foods and beverages in store checkouts. This healthy checkout ordinance (HCO) has the potential to improve customers' dietary intake if stores comply by increasing the healthfulness of foods and beverages at checkouts.

Objectives

To compare the percentage of checkout products that were HCO compliant and that fell into healthy and unhealthy food and beverage categories before and 1 year after HCO implementation in Berkeley relative to comparison cities.

Design, setting, and participants

In this cohort study in which Berkeley implemented an HCO and other cities did not, a difference-in-differences analysis was c

SUBMITTER: Falbe J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11310826 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature