Strategies used by the Canadian food and beverage industry to influence food and nutrition policies

Table 3 Number and frequency of the topics discussed during interactions between Health Canada and stakeholders regarding the Healthy Eating Strategy, October 2016 to June 2018

Topic	Industry n (%)^a	Non-Industry n (%)^a	All interactions n (%)^a
Canada Food Guide	14 (12.0)	28 (31.4)	42 (20.8)
Front-of-package labelling	57 (48.7)	24 (27.0)	79 (39.1)
Healthy Eating Strategy	43 (36.8)	33 (37.1)	74 (36.6)
Marketing to children	16 (13.7)	7 (7.9)	23 (11.4)
Nutrition labelling	6 (5.1)	5 (5.6)	11 (5.4)
Sodium	14 (12.0)	4 (4.5)	18 (8.9)
Sugar	0 (0)	5 (5.6)	5 (2.5)
Dietary fat	4 (3.4)	4 (4.5)	8 (4.0)
Total number of interactions^b	117	89	202

^aPercentage of interactions in which the topic was discussed. The total number of topics exceeds the number of interactions between Health Canada and stakeholders because multiple topics were often discussed in a single interaction
^bThe sum of interactions involving industry (n = 117) and non-industry (n = 89) stakeholders exceeds the total number of interactions (N = 202) because four interactions involved both type of stakeholders. Topics discussed in these mixed interactions were attributed to both industry and non-industry stakeholders

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