Design and approval of the nutritional warnings' policy in Peru: Milestones, key stakeholders, and policy drivers for its approval.

• Main Authors: Francisco Diez-Canseco (Author), Victoria Cavero (Author), Juan Alvarez Cano (Author), Lorena Saavedra-Garcia (Author), Lindsey Smith Taillie (Author), Francesca R Dillman Carpentier (Author), J Jaime Miranda (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2023-01-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Nutritional warnings are used as a public health strategy to address obesity. Peru approved in 2013 and implemented in 2019 a law requiring nutritional warnings on the marketing and packaging of processed foods high in sugar, sodium, saturated fat, and containing trans-fat. The complexity behind the...