The Health Department has gazetted new draft regulations for labelling and advertising on foodstuffs.
The public has until 21 July to comment. For more on this, we are joined by Nzama Mbalati from the Healthy Living Alliance.
JOHANNESBURG - You may soon know exactly which foods are high in salt, sugar and fat and have artificial sweeteners.Nzama Mbalati from the Healthy Living Alliance is welcoming the proposed changes.Sugar industry wants levy scrapped "The food that is actually unhealthy, and the problematic ingredients in the main is salt, transfat and sugar," he said.
"The regulation is trying to easily depict that for consumers when they purchase food at a first glance, through what we call the front-of-pack warning labels. "So all packaged food that will have a higher threshold as per milligrams in the foodstuff will actually be marked as high in sugar, high in fat, making it easier for consumers to understand that this is actually an unhealthy product that actually can endanger my health."
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