Impact of non-fiscal regulatory and voluntary policies on reformulation of food and drink products

This project will Assess the evidence for the impact of non-fiscal regulatory and voluntary policies on the reformulation of food and drink products.

26 May 2023

Background

Across the UK, the average diet exceeds the recommended intake for calories, sugar, saturated fat, and salt; and does not meet the recommendations for fruit, vegetables or fibre.听To improve the healthiness of average population's diets, many governments have introduced regulatory and voluntary food policies, including fiscal and non-fiscal interventions.听

The aim of these policies is to reduce negative influences or positively influence consumer behaviours, and encourage industry to reformulate products, leading to improved food environments (availability of healthier food products, support听of healthy choices) and an improvement in diet quality. However, the impact of these policies on product reformulation is unclear.

Aims

The aim of this review is to systematically search the evidence base (including academic literature and grey literature) to assess the evidence of non-fiscal regulatory and voluntary policies or interventions resulting in the reformulation of food and drink products.

Policies or interventions may include advertising, promotions, out of home calorie labels, front of pack labels and infant foods labelling policies. We are specifically interested in the reformulation of products to reduce levels of calories, sugar and salt present.

Methodology

To systematically review and synthesise the evidence assessing the impact of all non-fiscal regulatory and voluntary policies or interventions, for all food and drink products sold in all sectors (in or out of home), on the reformulation of all nutrients (calories, sugar, salt, fat and improvements in the healthfulness of products).

Timing

Autumn 鈥撎�2023听

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The NIHR Policy Research Unit in Healthy Weight is part of the NIHR and hosted by UCL.

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