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Sodium:

Packaged food sampling

Number products sampled:

Date collected: July 2015 – February 2016

Nutrient types: sodium, sugar, saturated fat

Methods

Data was collected from six major supermarket chain stores in high-income neighborhoods in Santiago, Chile in three waves: two in pre-implementation phase (2015 and 2016) and one in post-implementation phase (2017) of the Chilean law on food labelling and advertising. The law requires that packaged foods and beverages with added sodium, sugar and saturated fats content above the defined thresholds must display up to four front-of-package warning labels that read “high in [nutrient of concern].” Upon obtaining photographs of all the relevant products, trained dieticians documented the amount of each nutrient (total energy, sodium, total sugar, total saturated fat) per 100 g or 100 ml.

Products were then categorized into 17 groups. Information on sodium, sugar and saturated fat content per 100 g or 100 ml was reported by median and interquartile range.

Data source

Changes in the amount of nutrient of packaged foods and beverages after the initial implementation of the Chilean Law of Food Labelling and Advertising: A nonexperimental prospective study

Citation: Reyes M, Smith Taillie L, Popkin B, Kanter R, Vandevijvere S, Corvalán C. Changes in the amount of nutrient of packaged foods and beverages after the initial implementation of the Chilean Law of Food Labelling and Advertising: A nonexperimental prospective study.\_PLoS Med. 2020;17(7):e1003220. Published 2020 Jul 28. doi:10.1371/journal.pmed.1003220

Contact

Camila Corvalan

Researcher, Institute of Nutrition and Food Technology (INTA), University of Chile, Santiago, Chile

ccorvalan@inta.uchile.cl

Institutions involved in data collection

Institute of Nutrition and Food Technology (INTA), University of Chile, and the University of North Carolina

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