{"id":10728,"date":"2019-10-06T16:32:37","date_gmt":"2019-10-06T11:02:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/factly.forumias.com\/?p=10728"},"modified":"2019-10-06T16:32:37","modified_gmt":"2019-10-06T11:02:37","slug":"trans-fat-free-logo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/trans-fat-free-logo\/","title":{"rendered":"Trans-Fat Free\u2019 logo"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>News:<\/strong>Union Minister of Health and Family Welfare has launched the Trans Fat Free logo of Food Safety &amp; Standards Authority of India(FSSAI).<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Facts:<\/strong><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>About the logo:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Food establishments can display \u201cTrans Fat Free\u201d logo in their outlets and on their food products in compliance with the Food Safety and Standards (Advertising and Claims) Regulations, 2018.<\/li><li>The regulations specify that trans-fat free claim can be made for foods which contain less than 0.2 gm trans-fat per 100gm \/100ml.<\/li><li>The logo provides an important milestone in the movement against Trans-Fats and also provided a momentum to accelerate the \u2018Eat Right India\u2019 movement of FSSAI.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>What are trans-fats:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Trans-fats are the worst type of fats with known health risks.&nbsp;<\/li><li>They are largely present in partially hydrogenated vegetable fats or oils, vanaspati, margarine and bakery shortenings, and can also be found in baked and fried foods.&nbsp;<\/li><li>Industrial trans fats are made by adding hydrogen to liquid vegetable oils to make them more solid and to increase shelf life of foods.&nbsp;<\/li><li>Every year about 5 lakh people die globally of cardiovascular diseases, and for this the consumption of food laced with industry trans fats is a contributing factor.In India itself the number of deaths is around 60,000.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Additional information:<\/strong><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Eat right movement:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>The Eat Right India Movement was launched by Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) in 2018.<\/li><li>The movement is a preventive healthcare measure to trigger social and behavioural change among people.<\/li><li>The movement aims to improve public health in India and combat negative nutritional trends to fight lifestyle diseases.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI):<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) is a statutory, autonomous body established under the Ministry of Health &amp; Family Welfare<\/li><li>FSSAI is responsible for protecting and promoting public health through the regulation and supervision of food safety.<\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News:Union Minister of Health and Family Welfare has launched the Trans Fat Free logo of Food Safety &amp; Standards Authority of India(FSSAI). Facts: About the logo: Food establishments can display \u201cTrans Fat Free\u201d logo in their outlets and on their food products in compliance with the Food Safety and Standards (Advertising and Claims) Regulations, 2018.&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/trans-fat-free-logo\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Trans-Fat Free\u2019 logo<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1731],"tags":[1846,1935,7511],"class_list":["post-10728","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bill-and-acts","tag-eat-right-movement","tag-fssai","tag-trans-fat-free-logo","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":1700782947,"cached_date":1704857676},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10728","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10728"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10728\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}