Current policies in Brazil for ensuring nutritional quality

Block, Jane Mara; Arisseto-Bragotto, Adriana Pavesi; Feltes, Maria Manuela Camino

doi:10.1093/fqsafe/fyx026

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“…[146][147][148] In Brazil, for example, social movements have driven the creation of innovative national dietary guidelines that go beyond nutritional metrics to recommend behaviors around home cooking, communal eating, and discerning attitudes to food advertising, in turn catalyzing stronger regulations on the food industry and healthier school meals. [149][150][151][152] Yet, the separation between civil society and business is blurring, noticeably in the food sector. It has long been difficult to categorize many farmers' organizations as either civil society or business groups, 153 and new online platforms for social organization are softening this distinction further.…”

Section: The Rising Influence Of Social Movementsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Civil society's roles in system transformation include representing and raising the voice of marginalized communities, holding businesses and governments accountable, demonstrating new ways of producing and consuming, developing resilient local economies, providing services to underserved and isolated communities, defending people's rights or the protection of nature, advocating for different priorities or politics, and promulgating new social norms 146–148 . In Brazil, for example, social movements have driven the creation of innovative national dietary guidelines that go beyond nutritional metrics to recommend behaviors around home cooking, communal eating, and discerning attitudes to food advertising, in turn catalyzing stronger regulations on the food industry and healthier school meals 149–152 …”

Section: Strategies To Integrate Dietary Change Into Food System Tranmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Changing diets and the transformation of the global food system

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Park

Khoury

et al. 2020

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

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An aspirational global food system is one that delivers across a suite of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), including universal access to healthy diets, which can also codeliver on climate and environment SDGs. The literature has downplayed the relative contribution of dietary change to sustainable food systems. In this perspective article, we argue that the potential for positive transformational change in diets should not be underestimated, for two sets of reasons. First, the dynamism of diets over long-term and, especially, recent history shows the potential for rapid and widespread change, including toward more diverse and healthier diets. Second, contemporary behavioral research demonstrates promising tactics to influence consumers' dietary choices. Since the entire food system creates the circumstances of those choices, the most effective strategies to shift diets will involve multiple approaches that deliberately aim not just to influence consumers themselves but also to incentivize all actors in the food systems, taking into account multiple agendas and values. The effectiveness of actions will depend on the political economy at local, national, and global levels. Overall, there are reasons to be hopeful about the potential for accelerated global dietary change, given both historic trends and the growing suite of tools and approaches available.

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Section: The Rising Influence Of Social Movementsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Strategies To Integrate Dietary Change Into Food System Tranmentioning

confidence: 99%

Changing diets and the transformation of the global food system

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Park

Khoury

et al. 2020

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

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“…If the manufacturer includes any claim on the food package (called Complementary Nutritional Information; Informação Nutricional Complementar –INC), it is obligatory to declare the nutrition information of the related nutrient as well. Trans fats labelling became mandatory in 2006, when Brazil adopted the Southern Common Market ( Mercado Comum do Sul —Mercosul) norms [8]. All nutrient information is usually presented in a nutrition facts panel at the back of the package and has to be: (1) structured in a table or presented as a text, (2) presented in culinary measurements, (3) in the country’s official language, (4) legible [9].…”

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Consumers’ opinions on warning labels on food packages: A qualitative study in Brazil

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This study aimed to assess consumers’ uses of and opinions on the current Brazilian food label and their reaction to the introduction of a front-of-package warning label. We conducted 12 focus groups among a diverse sample of adult consumers, to broadly assess: (1) uses of and perceptions about the current food label, and (2) opinions about implementing a front-of-package warning label to guide food purchases. Data was analyzed with a triangulation of researchers using an exploratory content analysis, which allowed codes to emerge from the data. The frequency of codes across focus groups was compared by gender and socioeconomic status to explore differences by these sociodemographic factors. Codes were divided into six main themes: (1) “Reasons for using food labels”; (2) “Barriers to using food labels”; (3) “Requirements for a new label”; (4) “Perceived influence on consumption behaviors”; (5) “Perceived influence on child behaviors”; and (6) “Perceptions of the food manufacturers using of warning labels”. Participants used food labels to check nutrient content and ingredient information but the format of these labels and the technicality of the content displayed often made the information inaccessible, particularly for those with low socioeconomic status. Most participants were supportive of the display of front-of-package warning labels on products and considered them useful to inform purchases. Women believed that they and their children would reduce the consumption of foods with front-of-package warning labels, while men reported more polarity in their intentions. For men and their children, front-of-package warning labels would result in either stopping food intake entirely or continued consumption without changes to the amount. The study results highlight the potential of front-of-package warning labels to support healthier behaviors in both consumers and their children.

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“…Instead, industry was more successful at engaging in formal agreements, giving the perception that it agreed with the MoH's mission to improve overall public health. For instance, in 2007 and 2010, industrial leaders engaged in a formal agreement with the MoH that these companies would reduce the content of trans fat, salt, and sugar in their processed foods (Block et al, 2017). In essence, this is a form of self-regulation, with industry repeatedly engaging in dialogue and cooperative agreement with the government in order to thwart the passage of legislation.…”

Section: Policy and Research Manipulationmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…In essence, this is a form of self-regulation, with industry repeatedly engaging in dialogue and cooperative agreement with the government in order to thwart the passage of legislation. Nevertheless, the congress and MoH did succeed in passing a law in 2003 requiring food labelling on all products (Block et al, 2017). This labelling displayed nutritional and calorie information and adhered to the WHO's 2004 Global Strategy on Diet, Physical Activity and Health (Block et al, 2017).…”

Section: Policy and Research Manipulationmentioning

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The politics of ultra-processed foods and beverages regulatory policy in upper-middle-income countries: Industry and civil society in Mexico and Brazil

Gómez

2021

Global Public Health

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Addressing the politics of corporate political activity and policy interference in response to non-communicable diseases (NCDs) is a new area of scholarly research. The objective of this article is to explain how, in Mexico and Brazil, the ultra-processed foods and beverages industry succeeded in creating the political and social conditions conducive for their on-going regulatory policy influence and manipulation of scientific research. In addition to establishing partnerships within and outside of government, industry representatives have succeeded in hampering civic opposition by establishing allies within academia and society. Ministries of Health have simultaneously neglected to work closely with civil society, while legislative representatives have continued to benefit from industry campaign contributions. Findings from this article suggest that ultra-processed foods and beverages industries wield on-going regulatory policy influence in Mexico and Brazil, and that government is still not fully committed to working with civil society on these issues.

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Current policies in Brazil for ensuring nutritional quality

Cited by 12 publications

References 35 publications

Changing diets and the transformation of the global food system

Changing diets and the transformation of the global food system

Consumers’ opinions on warning labels on food packages: A qualitative study in Brazil

The politics of ultra-processed foods and beverages regulatory policy in upper-middle-income countries: Industry and civil society in Mexico and Brazil

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