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Environmental interventions to reduce SSB consumption can have adverse outcomes, including compensatory consumption outside school, reduced milk intake, and stakeholder discontent.

When implementing SSB restrictions, anticipate and monitor for unintended consequences like compensatory consumption or stakeholder pushback. Ensure healthy alternatives are available in all relevant settings (e.g., water outside school).

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Adverse outcomes reported by studies, which may occur in some circumstances, included negative effects on revenue, compensatory SSB consumption outside school when the availability of SSBs in schools is reduced, reduced milk intake, stakeholder discontent, and increased total energy content of grocery purchases with price discounts on low-calorie beverages, among others.
Peter von Philipsborn et al. · Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews · 2019

Why this rating

Certainty of evidence on adverse outcomes was low to very low.

Source

Environmental interventions to reduce the consumption of sugar-sweetened beverages and their effects on health

Peter von Philipsborn et al. · Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews · 2019

DOI 10.1002/14651858.cd012292.pub2

Meta-analysis · 58 studiesCited 304×
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DOI resolved against Crossref · corpus check 2026-06-10

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