Benchmarking the nutrition-related commitments and practices of major Belgian food companies

Abstract Background To benchmark and quantitatively assess the transparency, specificity and comprehensiveness of nutrition-related commitments, as well as related practices of the largest Belgian food companies. Methods The ‘Business Impact Assessment on Obesity and population-level nutrition’ (BIA-Obesity) was applied to evaluate nutrition-related commitments and practices concerning product formulation, labelling, promotion and accessibility by the biggest Belgian food and non-alcoholic beverage manufacturers ( n = 19), supermarkets ( n = 5) and quick-service restaurants ( n = 7). Publicly... Mehr ...