Front-of-package Nutrition Labelling Policy: Global Progress and Future Directions

Overview

Journal Public Health Nutr

Publisher Cambridge University Press

Date 2018 Mar 22

PMID 29559017

Citations 125

Authors

Rebecca Kanter

Lana Vanderlee

Stefanie Vandevijvere

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