Journal article
Arguments Used in Public Comments to Support or Oppose the US Department of Agriculture's Minimum Stocking Requirements: A Content Analysis
Journal of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics, Vol.118(9), pp.1664-1672
09/01/2018
DOI: 10.1016/j.jand.2017.12.005
PMID: 29452977
Abstract
Background In 2016, the US Department of Agriculture (USDA)'s Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) Retailer Rule proposed several changes for SNAP-authorized retailers, including: requiring retailers to have at least 85% of their food sales come from items that are not cooked or heated on site before or after purchase; requiring stores to stock seven varieties of qualifying foods from four staple food groups; requiring stores to carry perishable foods in three of the four staple groups; requiring stores to carry six units of qualifying foods at all times (depth of stock); disqualifying multiple ingredient foods and accessory foods from counting toward depth of stock requirements.
Objectives To better understand arguments used to support or oppose the USDA's proposed rule that all SNAP-authorized retailers carry more nutritious foods.
Design We conducted a qualitative content analysis of a random sample of public comments posted to the US Federal Register (a publicly available database) in response to the USDA's proposed rule.
Participants/setting A random sample of 20% of all public comments submitted by individuals and organizations to the US Federal Register were analyzed (n = 303) for this study.
Results Three main themes were discussed: 1) arguments used in opposition to the rule; 2) arguments used in support of the rule; and 3) facilitators to assist stores in implementing the rule. Some of the subthemes included focusing on definitions used in the rule, reduced food access caused by stores leaving the SNAP program, lack of space and equipment for healthy foods, and the potential for increasing healthy food access.
Conclusions Nutrition and dietetics practitioners may be tasked with working with stores to implement healthy changes. Nutrition and dietetics practitioners must understand the role that the USDA has in food policy. In addition, understanding how federal food policy influences the environments in which dietetics professionals' clients are making food choices is important.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Arguments Used in Public Comments to Support or Oppose the US Department of Agriculture's Minimum Stocking Requirements: A Content Analysis
- Creators
- Lindsey Haynes-Maslow - North Central State CollegeLauri Andress - West Virginia UniversityStephanie Jilcott Pitts - East Carolina UniversityIsabel Osborne - Univ North Carolina Chapel Hill, Gillings Sch Global Publ Hlth, Dept Nutr, Chapel Hill, NC USABarbara Baquero - University of IowaLisa Bailey-Davis - Geisinger Hlth Syst, Geisinger Ctr Hlth Res, Danville, PA USACarmen Byker-Shanks - Montana State UniversityBailey Houghtaling - Virginia TechJane Kolodinsky - University of VermontBrian K. Lo - Cornell UniversityEmily H. Morgan - Cornell UniversityEmily Piltch - Tufts UniversityElaine Prewitt - Univ Arkansas, Dept Hlth Policy & Management, Little Rock, AR 72204 USARebecca A. Seguin - Cornell UniversityAlice S. Ammerman - Nutrition
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Journal of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics, Vol.118(9), pp.1664-1672
- DOI
- 10.1016/j.jand.2017.12.005
- PMID
- 29452977
- NLM abbreviation
- J Acad Nutr Diet
- ISSN
- 2212-2672
- eISSN
- 2212-2680
- Publisher
- Elsevier
- Number of pages
- 9
- Grant note
- 5U48-DP001911 / Nutrition and Obesity Policy Research and Evaluation Network (NOPREN) from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Healthy Eating Research, a national program of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 09/01/2018
- Academic Unit
- Community and Behavioral Health
- Record Identifier
- 9984364400402771
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