Front-of-pack nutrition labelling: Where to now?

New Zealand Medical Journal

Volumn 123, Issue 1324, 2010, Pages 12-16

  White, John ^a   Thomson, George ^a   Signal, Louise ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHRONIC DISEASE; EDITORIAL; FOOD PACKAGING; FOOD PROCESSING; GOVERNMENT; NUTRITIONAL HEALTH; NUTRITIONAL VALUE; PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE; RISK FACTOR; COMPREHENSION; CONSUMER ATTITUDE; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMAN; NEW ZEALAND; PERCEPTION; PROCEDURES;

COMPREHENSION; CONSUMER BEHAVIOR; FOOD LABELING; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMANS; NEW ZEALAND; PERCEPTION;

EID: 77958066056     PISSN: None     EISSN: 11758716     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Editorial

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