Food Retailer Licensing: An Innovative Approach to Increasing Access to Healthful Foods

McLaughlin, Ian; Kramer, Karen L.

doi:10.5888/pcd9.120127

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“…30 In fact, tobacco retail licensing ordinances are the inspiration behind healthy food licensing ordinances. 31 Implementing tobacco retailer licensing systems not only allows officials to monitor compliance with state and local laws, but also allows localities to implement further restrictions, including restricting the sale of flavored tobacco products or banning tobacco retailers within 1,000 feet of schools. 32 …”

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Small Food Store Retailers’ Willingness to Implement Healthy Store Strategies in Rural North Carolina

et al. 2016

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Access to supermarkets is lacking in many rural areas. Small food stores are often available, but typically lack healthy food items such as fresh produce. We assessed small food store retailer willingness to implement 12 healthy store strategies to increase the availability, display, and promotion of healthy foods and decrease the availability, display, and promotion of tobacco products. Interviews were conducted with 55 small food store retailers in three rural North Carolina counties concurrently with store observations assessing current practices related to the strategies. All stores sold low-calorie beverages, sugar-sweetened beverages, candy and cigarettes. Nearly all sold smokeless tobacco and cigars/cigarillos, and 72% sold e-cigarettes. Fresh fruits were sold at 30.2% of stores; only 9.4% sold fresh vegetables. Retailers reported being most willing to stock skim/low-fat milk, display healthy snacks near the register, and stock whole wheat bread. About 50% were willing to stock at least three fresh fruits and three fresh vegetables, however only 2% of stores currently stocked these foods. Nearly all retailers expressed unwillingness to reduce the availability of tobacco products or marketing. Our results show promise for working with retailers in rural settings to increase healthy food availability in small food stores. However, restrictions on retail tobacco sales and marketing may be more feasible through local tobacco control ordinances, or could be included with healthy foods ordinances that require stores to stock a minimum amount of healthy foods.

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Small Food Store Retailers’ Willingness to Implement Healthy Store Strategies in Rural North Carolina

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“…Furthermore, areas, like Cleveland, with a high prevalence of adult tobacco use likely need enhanced enforcement, given the association between parent and child smoking . Tobacco retail licensure programs, wherein tobacco retailers pay a fee that is used to fund adherence checks, have emerged as an opportunity for age-specific policy enforcement and have demonstrated effectiveness …”

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Evaluation of Restrictions on Tobacco Sales to Youth Younger Than 21 Years in Cleveland, Ohio, Area

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Key Points Question Is the legislation raising the minimum legal age to purchase tobacco to 21 years in Cleveland, Ohio, associated with equitable outcomes among the adolescent population? Findings In this survey study including 12 616 high school students from Cleveland and its first-ring suburbs, prevalence of the most common form of current tobacco use among youth, cigars, declined in the postlegislation period, and there was a substantial reduction in the disparities among racial and ethnic populations across all tobacco product use types. Meaning These findings suggest that reduction in youth tobacco product use overall and tobacco use disparities may be associated with diminishing tobacco-related health disparities.

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“…Furthermore, possessing a food sales qualification proves that operators meet the legal requirements pertaining relevant qualifications and abilities, easing the "lemons problem" on the food market to a certain extent [46]. According to related laws, sales qualification should be categorized into three indexes to evaluate sales management, namely, food business, food circulation, and business licenses [47][48][49] erefore, the qualities of sales personnel must be improved by conducting food safety knowledge training [50]. ese methods can reduce the possibility of secondary contamination of food and food safety risks caused by wrong practices of sales personnel.…”

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Assessment of Dairy Product Safety Supervision in Sales Link: A Fuzzy-ANP Comprehensive Evaluation Method

Chen

Wang

Lei

et al. 2018

Journal of Food Quality

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An evaluation index system is developed to assess food safety supervision in the sales links of dairy products. Evaluation research is conducted using the fuzzy-ANP comprehensive evaluation model to assess the product safety supervision of dairy products in the sales link based on 307,705 survey data acquired from 1,501 online and offline dairy businesses in China. Evaluation results show that (1) the overall situation of dairy product safety supervision in the sales link is encumbered by the fact that the online situation of dairy product safety supervision in the sales link is general. It does not achieve a relatively good level; (2) the investment in food safety supervision of dairy products in the sales link is insufficient for the online e-commerce platforms. Especially, the processes of reviewing and approving relevant business sales qualification must be improved; (3) online business types do not directly determine the situation of dairy product safety supervision in the sales link, but the operating environment, sales staff quality, and warehousing management are common regulatory weaknesses; and (4) for offline provinces, the level of economic development can affect the situation of dairy product safety supervision in the sales link. Aside from emphasizing sales qualifications, economically backward provinces should improve the supervision of the operating environment, sales equipment, sanitary status of workers, and other aspects.

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Food Retailer Licensing: An Innovative Approach to Increasing Access to Healthful Foods

Cited by 3 publications

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Small Food Store Retailers’ Willingness to Implement Healthy Store Strategies in Rural North Carolina

Small Food Store Retailers’ Willingness to Implement Healthy Store Strategies in Rural North Carolina

Evaluation of Restrictions on Tobacco Sales to Youth Younger Than 21 Years in Cleveland, Ohio, Area

Assessment of Dairy Product Safety Supervision in Sales Link: A Fuzzy-ANP Comprehensive Evaluation Method

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