Emerging threats of global preemption to nutrition labelling
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11490759 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Eric Crosbie (0000-0002-6219-298X, School of Community Health Sciences, University of Nevada, 1664 N. Virginia Street, Reno, NV, USA), Arian Hatefi (0000-0002-2767-1934, University of California, San Francisco), Louis A Schmidt (0000-0003-4346-7260, Lee University, corresponding author), Laura Schmidt (0000-0001-8068-5609), Laura A Schmidt (0000-0002-6301-5280, Institute for Global Health Sciences, University of California San Francisco, 550 16th Street, Third Floor, San Francisco, CA, USA) |
| Year | 2019 |
| Volume | 34 |
| Issue | 5 |
| Pages | 401-402 |
| Publication date | 2019-06-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Health Policy and Planning (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0268-1080 • E-ISSN: 1460-2237 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1093/heapol/czz045 |
| PMID | 31173105 |
| OpenAlex | W2972342418 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
| References cited | 11 |
Overconsumption of globalized commodities, including tobacco, alcohol and ultra-processed foods, are among the most important non-communicable disease (NCD) risk factors (GBD 2016 Risk Factors Collaborators 2017). Transnational corporations (TNCs) increasingly market these commodities to vulnerable groups, including the young and the poor, and aggressively lobby governments for trade and investment agreements that constrain regulatory environments. With their expanding international reach, such efforts represent a globally shared NCD risk. In June 2018, >50 health experts co-signed a letter urging ‘strong health provisions in international trade agreements’ to curb demand for unhealthy commodities (e.g. taxation, marketing restrictions and product labelling) (Friends of the UN HLM on NCDs, 2018). A January 2019 EAT Lancet Commission report emphasized that unhealthy and unsustainably produced food poses a global risk to both human health and the planet (Willett et al., 2019). Recent efforts to revise the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) illustrate how trade and investment agreements could be used to limit governments’ capacities to enact nutrition-based NCD prevention policies (Thow and McGrady, 2014). In this comment, we look to the history of tobacco control to gauge the potential threat that trade and investment agreements pose to innovative policies regulating nutrition labelling as a case in point.
Business · Economics · International trade · Investment (military) · Overconsumption · Political science · Product (mathematics) · Production (economics) · Public health · Tobacco control · Consumer Attitudes and Food Labeling · Global Public Health Policies and Epidemiology · Medicine · Nutritional Studies and Diet
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| Citations per year | 0.83 |
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| Citation span | 2020 - 2025 (6) |
| Highly cited | No |