Impact of a Front-of-pack Nutrition Label on the Nutritional Quality of Purchases in Campus Cafeterias (5-C CROUS)

University of Paris 13

Status: Completed

Conditions: Food Labelling

Treatments: Behavioral: Front-of-pack labelling 5-CNL

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02663401

CROUS_NICE

Details and patient eligibility

About

This study evaluates the impact of the introduction of a front-of-pack nutrition label on fods and beverages sold in a campus cafeteria in France on the nutritional quality of purchases. The design involves one site with the intervention and one control site with the same consumer and product characteristics.

Full description

The introduction of front-of-pack nutrition labelling is thought to help consumers making healthier choices at the point of purchase.

Recently, the French government is considering the introduction of the 5-Colour Nutrition Label as a front-of-pack nutrition label.

Evaluations of the 5-CNL suggest it is efficient in helping consumers making healthier choices. However, its impact in vulnerable populations has not yet been tested.

Students are thought to be a vulnerable population due to their limited resources and to their unhealthy food choices.

The objective of the present study is to investigate the impact of the introduction of the 5-CNL in campus cafeterias on the nutritional quality of food purchases.

The intervention is conducted during several months, with another similar cafeteria serving as control for the intervention.

Data on purchases is collected regularly, and the nutritional quality of purchases is evaluated over time between the intervention situation and the control situation

Enrollment: 1,000 estimated patients

Sex: All

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• All subjects purchasing foods or beverages in the selected campus cafeterias

Exclusion criteria

• None

No individual data is collected. Only purchases data is collected (cash register sales data)

Trial design

Primary purpose: Other

Allocation: Non-Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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1,000 participants in 2 patient groups

Control

No Intervention group

Description:

Control situation in campus cafeterias where no labelling of food is proposed

Front-of-pack labelling (5-CNL)

Experimental group

Description:

Introduction of the 5-CNL front-of-pack nutrition label on shelf display tags for every food and beverage sold in the campus cafeteria. Communication campaigns accompanying the introduction of the label

Treatment:

Behavioral: Front-of-pack labelling 5-CNL