Doctors, policymakers raise voice for warning labels to check NCDs
Dr Naval K Vikram, diabetologist and professor in the department of medicine at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, talked about the strategic role the FoPL can play in helping bring down the NCDs.;
New Delhi: Packaged foods and beverages should have clear mandatory Front of Pack warning labels (FoPL) to help consumers make healthy and safe decisions, said lawmakers and experts at a roundtable at the Constitution Club of India while expressing concern on how rising non-communicable diseases (NCDs) including diabetes have overburdened the country's health system.
Bharatiya Janata Party Rajya Sabha MP, Sushil Modi, called for a stringent health warning on the unhealthy packaged foods specifying that it has HFSS (High in Fat, Sugar and Salt) content. "The warnings should be on the lines of those on the cigarette packets that "smoking is injurious to health," he said.
Participating in a first-of-its-kind roundtable discussion on "FoPL, impact of packaged foods on health" organised by the Institute for Governance, Policies and Politics, he said: "this would help people make safer choices."
Another Rajya Sabha MP, who also served as Director and Commandant of the Armed Forces Medical College, Lt. Gen. (Retd.) Dr DP Vats said that the sedimentary lifestyle and increased consumption of packed food is presenting an imminent threat to the nation's health and economy. He emphasised that this has led to increasing diabetes among the people.
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