From: Analysis of stakeholders’ responses to the food warning labels regulation in Mexico
Academia (n = 98) % | Health professionals (n = 23) % | NGOs | Industry (n = 113) % | Government (n = 9) % | Individuals (n = 325) % | Total (n = 637) % | ||
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PINGOs (n = 33) % | BINGOs (n = 36) % | |||||||
Judgement | ||||||||
In favour of | 88.8 | 78.3 | 93.9 | 5.6 | 2.7 | 55.6 | 41.2 | 44 |
Against | 11.2 | 21.7 | 6.1 | 94.4 | 97.3 | 44.4 | 58.7 | 56 |
Justification | ||||||||
Income and job losses | 0.8 | – | 1.6 | 2.3 | 5.2 | – | 4.2 | 3.3 |
Discrimination | – | 2.4 | – | 9.0 | 3.6 | – | 5.4 | 3.9 |
Positive experience in other countries | 6.2 | 7.3 | 13.2 | 0.8 | – | – | 2.7 | 3.5 |
Technologically unaffordable | – | – | – | 5.3 | 1.6 | – | 3.0 | 2.0 |
Legal principles | ||||||||
In accordance with human rights | ||||||||
To information, food, childhood and health | 10.8 | 19.5 | 27.1 | – | – | 15.4 | 3.0 | 6.4 |
Violation of human rights | ||||||||
To information, food and health | 0.8 | 2.4 | 0.8 | 2.3 | 11.8 | 7.7 | 3.0 | 4.9 |
To legal certainty and freedom of expression | – | – | – | 7.5 | 19.6 | 7.7 | 1.5 | 7.0 |
Violation of international treaties | 1.5 | 2.4 | 0.8 | 14.3 | 2.3 | – | 4.2 | 4.1 |
Violation of intellectual and industrial property and consumer protection | 0.8 | 2.4 | – | 21.1 | 31.4 | – | 4.2 | 12.9 |
Health and well-being | ||||||||
High obesity and NCD prevalence | 20.8 | 7.3 | 8.5 | – | 0.3 | 30.8 | 4.2 | 5.5 |
It’s not the solution for the high obesity and NCD prevalence | – | 2.4 | – | 4.5 | 1.3 | – | 6.3 | 3.0 |
Provides more information and improves food choices | 23.9 | 22.0 | 17.1 | 0.8 | 0.3 | 7.7 | 12.0 | 9.7 |
Provides less information and complicates food choices | 3.9 | 7.3 | 0.8 | 14.3 | 4.3 | 7.7 | 24.9 | 11.5 |
With scientific evidence support | 20.0 | 12.2 | 21.7 | 2.3 | 1.0 | 15.4 | 7.2 | 8.4 |
Without scientific evidence support | 6.2 | 2.4 | 0.8 | 12.0 | 15.7 | – | 9.0 | 9.6 |
Others not defined | 4.6 | 9.8 | 7.8 | 3.8 | 1.6 | 7.7 | 5.1 | 4.4 |