Dr. Osagie Ehanire, Minister of Health, has revealed that the Nigerian Government is set to regulate sodium consumption through packaged foods. Information Guide Nigeria
Ehanire stated this at the first multi-sectoral stakeholders’ meeting of Nigeria’s Sodium Reduction Study, jointly organised by National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) and the University of Abuja. THE NATION reports.
Represented by Dr. Alex Oko, the Director, Public Health in the Ministry of Health, the minister said the framework would help in reducing mortality of incidence by instituting cost-effective policies and social interventions that would interface behaviours and lifestyle changes.
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She said that some of the objectives of the NCDs Multi-sectorial Action Plan include promoting a healthy lifestyle and diet, as well as reducing salt intake through the reformulation of processed food products to contain less salt.
“The Non-Communicable Diseases (NCDs) Multi-sectoral Action Plan which is an alignment with WHO global NCDs action plan as well as the WHO ‘SHAKE’ technical package for salt reduction. jamb results
“The implementation of the plan aims to achieve specific national subjects as an aspect of the global NCDs goal and SDGs to achieve among other things as an effective reduction in mean population in case of salt, and sodium, which means two grammes per day by 2025 through regulation and reformulation of processed food products to contain less salt,” she said.
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