Journal article
On the Bottle: Health Information, Alcohol Labelling and the WTO Technical Barriers to Trade Agreement
Paula O'Brien, Andrew Mitchell
QUT Law Review | Queensland University of Technology, Faculty of Law | Published : 2018
Abstract
Since 2010, the World Health Organization has advocated the use of health information labelling to inform consumers of the health risks related to alcohol consumption. The alcohol industry oscillates between opposing and supporting alcohol labelling. This article reviews the minutes of the meetings of the World Trade Organization’s (‘WTO’s’) Committee on Technical Barriers to Trade (‘TBT’) (from 2010 to the present day) to garner unique insights into the specific features of alcohol health information labelling that are opposed by the alcohol industry. The article also identifies and analyses the trade law arguments that are made against these contested labelling measures. These arguments pr..
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Funding Acknowledgements
This research was supported in part by the Australian Research Council pursuant to the Future Fellowship scheme (project number FT130100416). The authors thank Tania Voon and Robin Room for helpful comments on an earlier draft, and Kyle Dickson-Smith, Pei Xuan Liu, and Sophia Kaiko for their research and editorial assistance. The authors also appreciate the helpful comments provided by the referees.