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Healthy choices: policy directive for Victorian public health services
Health services

Public hospitals and health services must ensure that healthier food and drinks are sold, provided and promoted at their facilities.

What is this for?
This policy outlines the requirements for public hospitals and health services to ensure that healthier food and drinks are provided across all vending machines, any in house food retail outlets as well as items purchased by staff and visitors from patient/resident menus, or catering provided by the service.

There are reporting requirements to the Department of Health that all hospitals and health services must meet. 

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Healthy choices: policy guidelines for hospitals and health services
Health services

Policy guidelines to support the application of Healthy Choices.

What is this for?
These policy guidelines help hospitals and health services in Victoria to apply Healthy Choices.

This policy addresses on-site food and drink retail outlets, vending machines and catering, organisational policy, tenders, contracts and leases with food and drink suppliers and retailers.

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Healthy choices: food and drink classification guide
Health services Food industry

A system for classifying foods and drinks.

What is this for?
The Victorian Government's Healthy Choices guidelines use a traffic light system to classify foods and drinks as GREEN, AMBER or RED.

This resource describes the processes used to classify items and defines the types of foods and drinks in each category. FoodChecker allows you to assess foods and drinks according to these Healthy Choices guidelines.

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