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Food and non-alcoholic drink products in Mexico were substantially reformulated to be healthier following the 2020 introduction of warning labels identifying products with excessive content of calories, fat, salt, sugar, sweetener and caffeine

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Food and non-alcoholic drink products in Mexico were substantially reformulated to be healthier following the 2020 introduction of warning labels identifying products with excessive content of calories, fat, salt, sugar, sweetener and caffeine

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Mexican warning labels on canned soft drinks.

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Credit: Simon Barquera (CC-BY 4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

Food and non-alcoholic drink products in Mexico were substantially reformulated to be healthier following the 2020 introduction of warning labels identifying products with excessive content of calories, fat, salt, sugar, sweetener and caffeine

 

 

In your coverage, please use this URL to provide access to the freely available paper in PLOS Medicine: http://journals.plos.org/plosmedicine/article?id=10.1371/journal.pmed.1004533

Article title: Product reformulation in non-alcoholic beverages and foods after the implementation of front-of-pack warning labels in Mexico

Author countries: Mexico

Funding: see manuscript

 

Journal

PLOS Medicine

DOI

10.1371/journal.pmed.1004533

Method of Research

Observational study

Subject of Research

People

COI Statement

Competing interests: The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

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