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In Pakistan, a normal day – food preparing family, school canteen serves breakfast and offer road vendors to cut off immediately. Many of these foods, including margarine, biscuits, bakery products and fried snacks, have industrially manufactured trans fats (ITFAs). Although they can add a satisfying crisis or creamy to our diet, transit is one of the major partners in cardiovascular diseases such as non -communication diseases that increase the risk of heart attacks and stroke. Trans bandits are associated with more than 200,000 deaths every year due to CVD in Pakistan. In Pakistan, the cost of trans fat intake is estimated at 459 million annually due to premature death.
In recognition of this threat, global health experts and the World Health Organization have set the boundaries of ITFA use in food. These regulatory measures are included, all of them impose a 2 % limit on the total fat ITFA in food. There is a urgent need for a ban on legislation on the production and distribution of partial hydrogenated oils (PHOS), which is the main raw material used in making industrial trans fats.
Many people may wonder why this ban on PHO is important. The answer is simple, our health and well -being are in danger. Fuose is the largest source of ITFA in supplying food. Processed foods, which are part of many daily diets, often consist of fosses. This oil is known to increase the risk of heart disease by increasing bad cholesterol levels and lowering good cholesterol levels.
It is especially in a country where dietary habits are changing rapidly and non -communication diseases have increased rapidly. In 2021, only 6 2.6 billion was spent to treat diabetes. Research shows that the economic burden will increase to $ 44 billion by 2045.
Continuing to allow these harmful trans fats in our food not only affects individual health, but also burden our health care system and economy. Time, resources and efforts may require time, resources and effort to restrict industrial transfits and ban the use of PHOs, but it is capable of health, low medical costs, economic benefits and long -term profits in terms of a strong, healthy nation.
Time, resources and efforts may require time, resources and effort to restrict industrial transfits and ban the use of PHOs, but it is capable of health, low medical costs, economic benefits and long -term profits in terms of a strong, healthy nation.
Legislative journey is not easy to improve food safety standards, but this is a journey that we have to perform with immediate and determination. There are many examples that Pakistan can draw. The three countries around the world, with some similar socio -economic indicators, have already adopted the international process to stop the ITFA. Some are not just organizing industrial trans fat for less than 2 % of the total fat in all foods, but completely banned the production and distribution of PHOs. We need to understand the need for a policy change that protects the public health. These efforts should never be in isolation. Rather, policy makers, health experts, civil society and related citizens have to work together to advocate for better health policies. By adopting the best policy process, we will take a clear and decisive step towards the saving of millions of lives.
With Pakistan’s standards and quality control authority, we are preparing our efforts to cover all food items along the limits of ITFA through food standards. However, due to the limited capacity of the implementation of provincial regulatory institutions, it is difficult to manage a number of street foods and ITFA sources. At the same time, the primary and important source material used in the manufacture of hydrogenated oils, ie, partially hydrogenated oils, should also be banned all over the country. This is important because food officials have limited technical, financial and human resources capability to enforce ITFA standards. If the production and distribution of the basic raw materials used in the manufacture of ITFA is completely banned, it will significantly reduce the risk of entering our food supply of industrial trans fats.
Legislators must be involved in this important purpose and emphasize the ban on Fus. This is not just a regular change-this is a promise of the welfare of every Pakistani. This is about ensuring that the food we eat nourishes us and does not harm us. Nowadays it is about to take active steps so that the generations to come can be healthy and more dynamic.
Author, a member of the National Assembly, is the Convener of Rights on Parliamentary Cox. He is also the Parliamentary Secretary of the Ministry of Science and Technology.
