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Evolution of food and beverage prices after the front-of-package labelling regulations in Chile
Guillermo Paraje1, Daniela Montes de Oca2, Camila Corvalán2
1Business School, Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez, Penalolen, Chile guillermo.paraje@uai.cl.
Introduction:
This study assesses the impact on prices of the 2016 Chilean comprehensive food policy package, centred around front-of-package warning labels for food and beverages high in saturated fats, sugars, calories and/or salt, on food and beverage prices, labelled or not.
Methods:
Data from Kantar WorldPanel Chile, from January 2014 to December 2017, were used. The methodology implemented was interrupted time series analyses with a control group on Laspeyres Price Indices on labelled food and beverage products.
Results:
After the regulations were implemented, prices among different categories of products (eg, high-in; reformulated but still high-in; reformulated and not high-in; not high-in) did not change with regulations relative to the control group. Specific price indices (relative to the control group) for households from different socioeconomic strata remained unchanged.
Conclusions:
Even where reformulation was extensive, we found no evidence that it was associated with price changes, at least during Chile's first year and a half of regulation implementation.
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