First-Year Evaluation of Mexico's Tax on Nonessential Energy-Dense Foods: An Observational Study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

In an effort to prevent continued increases in obesity and diabetes, in January 2014, the Mexican government implemented an 8% tax on nonessential foods with energy density ≥275 kcal/100 g and a peso-per-liter tax on sugar-sweetened beverages (SSBs). Limited rigorous evaluations of food taxes exist worldwide. The objective of this study was to examine changes in volume of taxed and untaxed packaged food purchases in response to these taxes in the entire sample and stratified by socioeconomic status (SES).

Methods and findings

This study uses data on household packaged food purchases representative of the Mexican urban population from The Nielsen Company's Mexico Consumer Panel Services (CPS). We included 6,248 households that participated in the Nielsen CPS in at

SUBMITTER: Batis C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4933356 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature