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International Trade and Investment Agreements as Barriers to Food Environment Regulation for Public Health Nutrition: A Realist Review.

Kelly K GartonAnne-Marie ThowBoyd A Swinburn
Published in: International journal of health policy and management (2020)
Available evidence suggests that there are potential TIA contributors to policy inertia on nutrition. Strategic policy design can avoid most substantive constraints. However, process constraints in the name of good regulatory practice (investor-state dispute settlement (ISDS), transparency, regulatory coherence, and harmonisation) pose a more serious threat of reducing government policy space to enact healthy food policies.
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