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Table 1 High-ranking interventions in Portfolio 1 Goal: Health Determinant: access to fruit and vegetables (f&v), assessment of actions at one year (∥ = not started, ▶ = some progress, ▶▶ = significant progress). Management objective: to increase and sustain access to high quality, safe affordable fruit and vegetables

From: Selecting interventions to promote fruit and vegetable consumption: from policy to action, a planning framework case study in Western Australia

Policy interventions

Public Policy development

1. Develop and support f&v consumption guidelines and position statements-∥

2. Develop and support nutrition policies promoting f&v in schools-▶▶

Legislation and regulation

3. Advocate for legislation for restriction of food advertising directed at children-â–¶

Community & organisational development (including organisational policy)

4. Support local initiatives and organisations to develop and implement food and nutrition policies and improve access to f&v-∥

5. Encourage the development of retailer training policies for handling f&v e.g. 'Retailer of the year' award-â–¶

Program interventions

Incentives (financial and non-financial)

6. Support award schemes that increase access to f&v for consumers:-▶▶

- Worksite

- Childcare & Schools (e.g. STARCAP1 and Start Right-Eat Right2)

- Hospitality (e.g. Gold Plate Award3)

- Supplier/retailer and transport operator accreditation/incentive schemes

- Product awards (e.g. WA Nutrition Awards4)

Service Development and delivery

7. Support the promotion of f&v in hospitality and catering training-â–¶

8. Support ongoing systems and food safety training e.g. HACCP5, SQF6 and approved supply programs-▶▶

Communication (including social marketing)

9. Support dissemination of FSANZ policies and promotional materials relating to f&v-â–¶

10. Provide consumers with promotional materials on best conditions for storing fresh foods through retail outlets-▶▶

Collaboration/partnerships(community and intersectoral

11. Support welfare agencies in the provision of f&v (e.g. FoodBank3)-▶▶

Infrastructure support

Identification and surveillance of determinants

12. Collect and analyse information to assess f&v supply, cost, quality, access, sales/marketing (e.g. Market basket survey)-∥

Information systems

13. Develop systems to improve communication of f&v marketing & information through the supply chain eg price, quality, volume statistics-∥

Research and development capacity

14. Identify f&v supply issues in rural and regional development plans and make recommendations for action-∥

15. Identify and test assumptions about critical factors impacting on price, quality and access to f&v – remote, rural and urban-∥

Plant and equipment

16. Advocate for appropriate f&v storage facilities in remote community stores-∥

Leadership

17. Establishment of a Western Australian Taskforce on Equity in Food Access-∥

  1. 1 Star Canteen Accreditation Program http://www.waschoolcanteens.org.au/pages/starcap/01-starcap.htm, 2 [45], 3 Foodbank Western Australia http://www.foodbankwa.org.au, 4 WA Nutrition Awards http://www.population.health.wa.gov.au/Promotion/wa_nutrition.cfm, 5 HACCP Based Food Safety Programmes and Endorsements http://www.haccp.com.au/, 6 Safe Quality Food Institute http://www.sqfi.com/