Nutritional claims, consumer food and public health

Allégations nutritionnelles, consommation alimentaire et politiques de santé publique

Abdelwaheb Chaieb, France Caillavet, Véronique Nichèle and Louis Georges Soler ()
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Abdelwaheb Chaieb: THEMA - Théorie économique, modélisation et applications - UCP - Université de Cergy Pontoise - Université Paris-Seine - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
France Caillavet: ALISS - Alimentation et sciences sociales - INRA - Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique
Véronique Nichèle: ALISS - Alimentation et sciences sociales - INRA - Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique
Louis Georges Soler: ALISS - Alimentation et sciences sociales - INRA - Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique

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Abstract: In this article we model the food demand with nutritional claims. Our goal is to answer questions about the effectiveness of using these instruments and equal access to populations. We consider the market for breakfast using the TNS Worldpanel-2004 data. The results show that products with nutritional claims seem to reach households at risk of health. But the substitution relationship with other foods suggest some limits on the effectiveness of these devices. A micro-simulation nutrition policies shows that a tax on products with low nutritional characteristics has ambiguous effects on the overall consumption of nutrients.

Keywords: nutritional claims; food Policy; consumer behavior; allégations nutritionnelles; microéconomie du consommateur; politiques alimentaires (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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Published in Économie rurale, 2014, 341, pp.41- 62

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