Question: What is the deadline year set by the World Health Organisation for elimination of Trans fat from the industrially produced global food supply?
(a) 2025
(b) 2030
(c) 2020
(d) 2024
Answer: (d)
Related facts:
(a) 2025
(b) 2030
(c) 2020
(d) 2024
Answer: (d)
Related facts:
- Twelve of the largest global food and beverage companies committed to the World Health Organization’s (WHO) goal of phasing out industrially produced trans fat (iTFAs) from the global food supply by 2023.
- They are the member of International Food and Beverage Alliance (IFBA) members.
- The new IFBA commitment includes burger chain McDonald’s which was not included in the last list of 2016.
- They expressed their commitment to eliminate industrial trans fats, and reduce salt, sugar and saturated fats in processed foods.
- WHO welcomes the commitment by the International Food and Beverage Alliance (IFBA) for its alignment with WHO.
- IFBA members decided to ensure the amount of industrial trans fat in their products not exceeding to 2 gram per 100 g fat/oil globally by 2023.
- In around 98.5 percent of their products worldwide, IFBA members had met the target of their 2016 commitment to reduce iTFAs to nutritionally inconsequential levels (less than one gram of fat per 100 grams of product) in their products.
- Trans fat is known to be the worst form of fat in food. It is responsible for over 5,00,000 deaths globally due to severe heart disease each year.
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