Vergeer L, Ahmed M, Vanderlee L, Mulligan C, Weippert M, Franco-Arellano B, Dickinson K, Bernstein JT, Labonté MÈ, L’Abbé MR. The relationship between voluntary product (re) formulation commitments and changes in the nutritional quality of products offered by the top packaged food and beverage companies in Canada from 2013 to 2017. BMC Public Health. 2022 Feb 10;22(1):271. doi: 10.1186/s12889-022-12683-2. PMID: 35144589. View Online.
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Quantifying Child-Appeal: The Development and Mixed-Methods Validation of a Methodology for Evaluating Child-Appealing Marketing on Product Packaging
Mulligan C, Potvin Kent M, Vergeer L, Christoforou AK, L’Abbé MR. Quantifying Child-Appeal: The Development and Mixed-Methods Validation of a Methodology for Evaluating Child-Appealing Marketing on Product Packaging. Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2021 Apr 29;18(9):4769. doi: 10.3390/ijerph18094769. PMID: 33947116. View Online.
The Level of Processing, Nutritional Composition and Prices of Canadian Packaged Foods and Beverages with and without Gluten-Free Claims
Vergeer L, Franco-Arellano B, Tjong GB, Bernstein JT, L’Abbé MR. The Level of Processing, Nutritional Composition and Prices of Canadian Packaged Foods and Beverages with and without Gluten-Free Claims. Nutrients. 2021 Apr 2;13(4):1183. doi: 10.3390/nu13041183. PMID: 33918418; PMCID: PMC8066194. View Online.
Comparing how Canadian packaged food products align with the 2007 and 2019 versions of Canada’s Food Guide
Mulligan C, Franco-Arellano B, Ahmed M, Vergeer L, Dickinson KM, L’Abbé MR. Comparing how Canadian packaged food products align with the 2007 and 2019 versions of Canada’s Food Guide. Appl Physiol Nutr Metab. 2021 Feb 17. doi: 10.1139/apnm-2020-0620. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 33596121. View Online.
The Development and Application of a Tool for Quantifying the Strength of Voluntary Actions and Commitments of Major Canadian Food Companies to Improve the Nutritional Quality of Their Products
Vergeer L, Vanderlee L, Sacks G, Robinson E, Mackay S, Young L, Mulligan C, L’Abbé MR. The Development and Application of a Tool for Quantifying the Strength of Voluntary Actions and Commitments of Major Canadian Food Companies to Improve the Nutritional Quality of Their Products. Curr Dev Nutr. 2020 Sep 22;4(10):nzaa151. doi: 10.1093/cdn/nzaa151. PMID: 33134791; PMCID: PMC7580911. View Online.
Methodology for the Determination of Fruit, Vegetable, Nut and Legume Points for Food Supplies without Quantitative Ingredient Declarations and Its Application to a Large Canadian Packaged Food and Beverage Database
Vergeer L, Ahmed M, Franco-Arellano B, Mulligan C, Dickinson K, Bernstein JT, Labonté MÈ, L’Abbé MR. Methodology for the Determination of Fruit, Vegetable, Nut and Legume Points for Food Supplies without Quantitative Ingredient Declarations and Its Application to a Large Canadian Packaged Food and Beverage Database. Foods. 2020;9(8):E1127. Published 2020 Aug 15. doi:10.3390/foods9081127. View Online.
A comparison of the nutritional quality of products offered by the top packaged food and beverage companies in Canada
Vergeer L, Vanderlee L, Ahmed M, Franco-Arellano B, Mulligan C, Dickinson K, L’Abbé MR. A comparison of the nutritional quality of products offered by the top packaged food and beverage companies in Canada. BMC Public Health. 2020;20(1):650. Published 2020 May 11. doi:10.1186/s12889-020-08828-w. View Online.
Evaluating the Canadian Packaged Food Supply Using Health Canada’s Proposed Nutrient Criteria for Restricting Food and Beverage Marketing to Children
Mulligan C, Christoforou AK, Vergeer L, Bernstein JT, L’Abbé MR. Evaluating the Canadian Packaged Food Supply Using Health Canada’s Proposed Nutrient Criteria for Restricting Food and Beverage Marketing to Children. Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2020;17(4). pii: E1250. doi: 10.3390/ijerph17041250. View Online.
The Calorie and Nutrient Density of More- Versus Less-Processed Packaged Food and Beverage Products in the Canadian Food Supply
Vergeer L, Veira P, Bernstein JT, Weippert M, L’Abbé MR. The Calorie and Nutrient Density of More- Versus Less-Processed Packaged Food and Beverage Products in the Canadian Food Supply. Nutrients. 2019;11(11). pii: E2782. doi: 10.3390/nu11112782. View Online. View PDF.
BIA-Obesity (Business Impact Assessment-Obesity and population-level nutrition): A tool and process to assess food company policies and commitments related to obesity prevention and population nutrition at the national level
Sacks G, Vanderlee L, Robinson E, Vandevijvere S, Cameron AJ, Ni Mhurchu C, Lee A, Ng SH, Karupaiah T, Vergeer L, L’Abbé M, Swinburn B. BIA-Obesity (Business Impact Assessment-Obesity and population-level nutrition): A tool and process to assess food company policies and commitments related to obesity prevention and population nutrition at the national level. Obes Rev. 2019. doi: 10.1111/obr.12878. View Online.