Commentary: Editorial: Strengthening food labeling policies in Brazil

Bruna Eugênia Ferreira Mota; Iasmim Cristiane de Alcântara; Perciliany Martins de Souza; Gabriela Guerra Leal Souza; Laís Amaral Mais; Camila Carvalho Menezes; Isabel Antunes David

doi:10.3389/fnut.2023.1331250

Commentary: Editorial: Strengthening food labeling policies in Brazil

Front Nutr. 2023 Dec 8:10:1331250. doi: 10.3389/fnut.2023.1331250. eCollection 2023.

Authors

Bruna Eugênia Ferreira Mota¹, Iasmim Cristiane de Alcântara¹, Perciliany Martins de Souza¹, Gabriela Guerra Leal Souza¹, Laís Amaral Mais², Camila Carvalho Menezes³, Isabel Antunes David⁴

Affiliations

¹ Laboratory of Psychophysiology, Institute of Exact and Biological Sciences, Department of Biological Sciences, Federal University of Ouro Preto, Ouro Preto, Brazil.
² Healthy and Sustainable Diets Program, Brazilian Institute for Consumer Defense (IDEC), São Paulo, Brazil.
³ Department of Food, School of Nutrition, Federal University of Ouro Preto, Ouro Preto, Brazil.
⁴ Laboratory of Neurophysiology of Behavior, Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, Biomedical Institute, Federal University Fluminense, Niterói, Brazil.

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Keywords: Brazil; Latin America; food policy; front-of-pack nutrition labeling; ultra-processed foods.

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Grants and funding

The author(s) declare financial support was received for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article. This work was supported by Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES), Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq), Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de Minas Gerais (FAPEMIG), Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (FAPERJ), and Universidade Federal de Ouro Preto (UFOP).