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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

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

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 interactionsb

117

89

202

  1. 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
  2. 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