Beverages and snacks available in vending machines from a subset of Ontario secondary schools: Do offerings align with provincial nutrition standards?

Canadian Journal of Public Health

Volumn 107, Issue 4-5, 2016, Pages e417-e423

  Orava, Taryn ^a   Manske, Steve ^a,b   Hanning, Rhona ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

^b Propel Centre for Population Health Impact   (Canada)

Author keywords

Automatic; Food dispensers; Nutrition policy; Public health; Schools

Indexed keywords

BEVERAGE; FAST FOOD; FOOD HANDLING; HUMAN; NUTRITION POLICY; ONTARIO; SCHOOL; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

BEVERAGES; FOOD DISPENSERS, AUTOMATIC; HUMANS; NUTRITION POLICY; ONTARIO; SCHOOLS; SNACKS;

EID: 85007518537     PISSN: 00084263     EISSN: 19207476     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.17269/CJPH.107.5326     Document Type: Article

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