Fight the Obesity Epidemic

TRAFFIC LIGHT REFERENCES

Check the sources we use to argue that a traffic light food labelling system is best.

Traffic light food labelling

FOE. (2006). Submission to the Health Select Committee of Inquiry into Obesity and Type Two Diabetes in New Zealand, section 7.6.
Available at: http://foe.org.nz/wp-content/plugins/wp-publications-archive/openfile.php?action=open&file=113

Sacks, G., Veerman, J. L., Moodie, M. & Swinburn, B. (2010) ‘Traffic-light’ nutrition labelling and ‘junk-food’ tax: a modelled comparison of cost-effectiveness for obesity prevention. International Journal of Obesity35(7) 2010, 1001-9.
Available at: http://www.nature.com/ijo/journal/v35/n7/full/ijo2010228a.html

The Nutrition Information Panel (NIP)

Maubach, N., Hoek, J., & McCreanor, T. (2007). Parents’ views of nutrition information labels: An exploratory study. Available at: http://www.anzmac07.otago.ac.nz/anzmacCD/papers/NMaubach_1.pdf

O’Brien, B., & Taylor, R. (2004). The F word: A New Zealand guide to preventing childhood obesity. Auckland: David Bateman.

Signal, L., & Lanumata, T. (2008). The feasibility of front-of-pack nutrition labelling and research to measure its effectiveness in New Zealand: The views of key stakeholders. Available at: http://www.foodsafety.govt.nz/elibrary/industry/signposting-nutrition-study-research-projects/signs-key-informants-report-final.pdf

Pick the Tick

Healthy food tick ‘failing low-income groups’. (2007, 9 August). Retrieved 28 October 2008, from http://www.stuff.co.nz/4158724a11.html#Scene_1

White, J. (2007). The Health Select Committee Inquiry into Obesity and Type Two Diabetes in New Zealand: An initial analysis of submissions, section 7.1.3. Available at: http://foe.org.nz/wp-content/plugins/wp-publications-archive/openfile.php?action=open&file=112

Woulfe, C. (2006, May 28). Heart Foundation’s healthy tick campaign deserves big cross. Retrieved 28 October 2008, from http://www.nzherald.co.nz/category/print.cfm?c_id=204&objectid=10383884

The website for Pick the Tick is at www.pickthetick.org.nz

Traffic light labels in the United Kingdom

Beard, T. Traffic light food labels. Available at:  http://www.saltmatters.org/PDFs/TRAFFIC%20LIGHTS-web.pdf

Food Standards Agency (UK). (2007). Front-of-pack traffic light signpost labelling technical guidance Issue 2. Available at: http://www.food.gov.uk/multimedia/pdfs/frontofpackguidance2.pdf

Sweney, M. (2007, 8 January). Food industry pushes own labelling system. Retrieved 29 October 2008, from http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2007/jan/08/advertising.marketingandpr1

The food industry and Percentage Daily Intake

Beard, T. Traffic light food labels. Available at: http://www.saltmatters.org/PDFs/TRAFFIC%20LIGHTS-web.pdf

Food Standards Australia New Zealand. Consumer understanding of percentage daily intake (%DI) information. Available at: http://www.foodstandards.gov.au/_srcfiles/Consumer%20Understanding.pdf

Food Standards Australia New Zealand. (2007). International literature review on percentage daily intake labelling. Available at: http://www.foodstandards.gov.au/standardsdevelopment/proposals/proposalp293nutritionhealthandrelatedclaims/p293preliminaryfinal3502.cfm

Kelly, B., Hughes, C., Chapman, K., Louie, J., Dixon, H., & King, L. (2008). Front-of-pack food labelling: Traffic light labelling gets the green light. Sydney: Cancer Council. Available at: http://www.cancercouncil.com.au/nutrition/foodlabellingreport

Ledeman, J., & Zipper, T. (2006). How Daily Intake information pitfalls are likely to detract from usefulness and understanding of Nutrition Information Panels. Retrieved 21 October 2008, from http://www.foodlegal.com.au/bulletin/article/2006-12/how_daily_intake_information_pitfalls_are_likely_to_detract_from_usefulness_and_understanding_of_nutrition_information_panels/

Maubach, N., & Hoek, J. (2008). The effect of alternative nutrition information formats on consumers’s evaluations of a children’s breakfast cereal. Retrieved 17 October 2008, from http://ro.uow.edu.au/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1000&context=insm08

Signal, L., & Lanumata, T. (2008). The feasibility of front-of-pack nutrition labelling and research to measure its effectiveness in New Zealand: The views of key stakeholders. Available at: http://www.foodsafety.govt.nz/elibrary/industry/signposting-nutrition-study-research-projects/signs-key-informants-report-final.pdf

Advantages of a traffic light system

Beard, T. C., Nowson, C. A., & Riley, M. D. (2007). Traffic-light food labels. Medical Journal of Australia, 186(1), 19.

Brigden, D. Traffic light labels. Available at:  http://www.aph.gov.au/house/committee/haa/obesity/subs/sub110.pdf

FOE. (2006). Submission to the Health Select Committee of Inquiry into Obesity and Type Two Diabetes in New Zealand, section 7.6. Available at: http://foe.org.nz/wp-content/plugins/wp-publications-archive/openfile.php?action=open&file=113

Kelly, B., Hughes, C., Chapman, K., Louie, J., Dixon, H., & King, L. (2008). Front-of-pack food labelling: Traffic light labelling gets the green light. Sydney: Cancer Council. Available at: http://www.cancercouncil.com.au/nutrition/foodlabellingreport

Signal, L., & Lanumata, T. (2008). The feasibility of front-of-pack nutriton labelling and research to measure its effectiveness in New Zealand: The views of key stakeholders. Available at:  http://www.foodsafety.govt.nz/elibrary/industry/signposting-nutrition-study-research-projects/signs-key-informants-report-final.pdf

Current developments in New Zealand and Australia

Independent Expert Panel for the Review of Food Labelling Law and Policy. Labelling logic: Review of Food Labelling Law and Policy (2011). Canberra: Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing, 2011. (The Blewett Report.)
Available from: http://www.foodlabellingreview.gov.au/internet/foodlabelling/publishing.nsf/Content/pubsreports

Submissions to the Food Labelling Review. Canberra: Review of Food Labelling Law and Policy; 2010.
Available from:  http://www.foodlabellingreview.gov.au/internet/foodlabelling/publishing.nsf/Content/submissions-public

FOE (2010). Submission to the Review of Food Labelling Law and Policy.
Available from: http://foe.org.nz/wp-content/plugins/wp-publications-archive/openfile.php?action=open&file=142

Sanitarium Health & Wellbeing (2011). Front-of-pack labelling: Which traffic lights?
Available from: http://www.sanitarium.co.nz/~/media/sanitarium/about-us/traffic-light-report.ashx

White J, Thomson G, Signal L (2010). Front-of-pack nutrition labelling: where to now? NZ Medical Journal, 123(1234): 12-16.
Available from: http://journal.nzma.org.nz/journal/123-1324/4395/content.pdf