The Healthy Eating is in Store for You (TM) project has three background resources These resources helped inform the project and its direction. These background resources include:

1) The Environmental Scan Report is the report of an international scan conducted for the Healthy Eating is in Store for You Project. The scan searched for videos, print and internet-based educational resources and evaluation research on nutrition information on food labels. The scan was completed in August 2002.

2) The 'Nutrition Labelling - Consumers, Retail and Point of Purchase' is an annotated bibliography developed through the Healthy Eating is in Store for You (TM) project. This is a broad based reference list of recent articles about nutrition labelling in Canada and the USA. All the articles were published BEFORE the Canada Gazette 2 on January 1, 2003 which provided the new regulations for nutrition information on the food labels of packaged foods in Canada.

3) The Nutrition Labelling Evaluation is an annotated reference list developed through the Healthy Eating is in Store for You (TM) project. All the articles were published BEFORE the Canada Gazette 2 publication on January 1, 2003 which provided the new regulations for nutrition information on the food labels of packaged foods in Canada.