Benchmarking the nutrition-related commitments and practices of major Belgian food companies.

ABSTRACT:

Background

To benchmark and quantitatively assess the transparency, specificity and comprehensiveness of nutrition-related commitments, as well as related practices of the largest Belgian food companies.

Methods

The 'Business Impact Assessment on Obesity and population-level nutrition' (BIA-Obesity) was applied to evaluate nutrition-related commitments and practices concerning product formulation, labelling, promotion and accessibility by the biggest Belgian food and non-alcoholic beverage manufacturers (n = 19), supermarkets (n = 5) and quick-service restaurants (n = 7). Publicly available commitments were collected and company representatives given the opportunity to verify and complete the information (2019-2020). Commitments were scored according to the BIA-Obesity. To a

SUBMITTER: Van Dam I 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8991492 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature