Impact of 'traffic-light' nutrition information on online food purchases in Australia

Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 122-126

  Sacks, Gary ^a   Tikellis, Kim ^b   Millar, Lynne ^a   Swinburn, Boyd ^a  

^a DEAKIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b Fonterra Australia ^*  (Australia)

Author keywords

Food purchases; Nutrition labelling; Online shopping

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; COMMERCIAL PHENOMENA; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONSUMER HEALTH INFORMATION; DECISION MAKING; ECONOMICS; FOOD; FOOD PACKAGING; FOOD PREFERENCE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMAN; INTERNET; METHODOLOGY; STATISTICS;

AUSTRALIA; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; COMMERCE; CONSUMER HEALTH INFORMATION; FOOD; FOOD LABELING; FOOD PREFERENCES; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMANS; INTERNET;

EID: 79959910609     PISSN: 13260200     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1753-6405.2011.00684.x     Document Type: Article

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