Jeong H, Mulligan C, Vergeer L, Lee JJ, L’Abbe MR. Policy gap: most child-appealing packaged food products in Canada will display a ‘high in’ front-of-package nutrition symbol. Public Health Nutr. 2025 Dec 5:1-24. doi: 10.1017/S1368980025101535. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 41347563. View Online.
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A cross-sectional analysis of the nutritional quality and prices of commercial infant and toddler food products in the Canadian food supply
Lee JJ, Middleton CG, Mulligan C, Vergeer L, Hammond L, L’Abbé MR. A cross-sectional analysis of the nutritional quality and prices of commercial infant and toddler food products in the Canadian food supply. Paediatr Child Health. 2025 May 21;30(5):421-427. doi: 10.1093/pch/pxaf018. PMID: 40917282; PMCID: PMC12408472. View Online.
Evaluating the Proportion of Foods and Beverages in the Canadian Grocery and Chain Restaurant Food Supply That Would Be Restricted from Marketing to Children on Television and Digital Media
Jeong H, Mulligan C, Khan A, Vergeer L, L’Abbe MR. Evaluating the Proportion of Foods and Beverages in the Canadian Grocery and Chain Restaurant Food Supply That Would Be Restricted from Marketing to Children on Television and Digital Media. Nutrients. 2025 May 28;17(11):1828. doi: 10.3390/nu17111828. PMID: 40507097; PMCID: PMC12156963. View Online.
The healthfulness of major food brands according to Health Canada’s nutrient profile model for proposed restrictions on food marketing to children
Vergeer L, Mulligan C, Jeong H, Khan A, L’Abbé MR. The healthfulness of major food brands according to Health Canada’s nutrient profile model for proposed restrictions on food marketing to children. Public Health Nutr. 2025 Jan 7;28(1):e17. doi: 10.1017/S1368980024002659. PMID: 39764633. View Online.
Free sugars in the Canadian diet: a research summary and future directions for food policy.
Zaltz D, Ahmed M, Vergeer L, Schermel A, L’Abbé MR. Free sugars in the Canadian diet: a research summary and future directions for food policy. Appl Physiol Nutr Metab. 2024 Oct 15. doi: 10.1139/apnm-2023-0632. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 39405581. View Online.
Sex differences in children’s exposure to food and beverage advertisements on broadcast television in four cities in Canada
Potvin Kent M, Soares Guimarães J, Amson A, Pauzé E, Remedios L, Bagnato M, Pritchard M, Onwo A, Wu D, L’Abbé M, Mulligan C, Vergeer L, Weippert M. Sex differences in children’s exposure to food and beverage advertisements on broadcast television in four cities in Canada. Health Promot Chronic Dis Prev Can. 2023 May;43(5):222-230. doi: 10.24095/hpcdp.43.5.02. PMID: 37195652; PMCID: PMC10237258. View Online.
Child-appealing packaged food and beverage products in Canada-Prevalence, power, and nutritional quality
Mulligan C, Vergeer L, Kent MP, L’Abbé MR. Child-appealing packaged food and beverage products in Canada-Prevalence, power, and nutritional quality. PLoS One. 2023 May 3;18(5):e0284350. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0284350. PMID: 37134046; PMCID: PMC10156002. View Online.
Differences in child and adolescent exposure to unhealthy food and beverage advertising on television in a self-regulatory environment
Potvin Kent M, Soares Guimaraes J, Pritchard M, Remedios L, Pauzé E, L’Abbé M, Mulligan C, Vergeer L, Weippert M. Differences in child and adolescent exposure to unhealthy food and beverage advertising on television in a self-regulatory environment. BMC Public Health. 2023 Mar 23;23(1):555. doi: 10.1186/s12889-023-15027-w. PMID: 36959572; PMCID: PMC10037770. View Online.
Broadcast television is not dead: Child exposure to unhealthy food advertising on television in two policy environments (Ontario and Quebec)
Potvin Kent, M., Soares Guimaraes, J., Bagnato, M., Remedios, L., L’Abbé, M., Mulligan, C., Vergeer, L., Weippert, M. Broadcast television is not dead: Child exposure to unhealthy food advertising on television in two policy environments (Ontario and Quebec). An observational study. The Journal of Nutrition. 2023; 153(1):268-278. doi: 10.1016/j.tjnut.2022.09.002. Epub 2022 Dec 21. PMID: 36913461. View Online.
Advertising expenditures on child-targeted food and beverage products in two policy environments in Canada in 2016 and 2019
Potvin Kent M, Pauzé E, Remedios L, Wu D, Soares Guimaraes J, Pinto A, Bagnato M, Pritchard M, L’Abbé M, Mulligan C, Vergeer L, Weippert M. Advertising expenditures on child-targeted food and beverage products in two policy environments in Canada in 2016 and 2019. PLoS One. 2023 Jan 11;18(1):e0279275. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0279275. PMID: 36630326; PMCID: PMC9833551. View Online.