Nutrition-labeling regulation impacts on restaurant environments.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Recent attempts to improve the healthfulness of away-from-home eating include regulations requiring restaurants to post nutrition information. The impact of such regulations on restaurant environments is unknown.

Purpose

To examine changes in restaurant environments from before to after nutrition-labeling regulation in a newly regulated county versus a nonregulated county.

Methods

Using the Nutrition Environment Measures Survey-Restaurant version audit, environments within the same quick-service chain restaurants were evaluated in King County (regulated) before and 6 and 18 months after regulation enforcement and in Multnomah County (nonregulated) restaurants over a 6-month period. Data were collected in 2008-2010 and analyses conducted in 2011.

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SUBMITTER: Saelens BE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3479434 | biostudies-literature | 2012 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature