Health warnings on food packages likely

(Barbados Today) Packaged, bottled and canned foods sold on supermarket shelves here could soon carry health warnings on the amount of sugar, salt and trans fat contained in these products.

Barbados and sister Caribbean Community (CARICOM) country Jamaica undertook at a recent conference to develop food and nutrition labelling systems that are easy to understand and can serve as benchmarks for the Region.

The Pan American Health Organisation (PAHO) sub-regional meeting on Strategy for Health-Related Laws: Implementing Fiscal and Regulatory Policies to Prevent Obesity in Children and Adolescents ended last Friday.

PAHO’s Advisor on Chronic Diseases for Barbados and the Eastern Caribbean Dr. Tomo Kanda said the two countries were expected to come up with a food content disclosure formula, “which is user-friendly for all consumers and hopefully we can standardized such labelling among CARICOM countries”.

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