In India, where there is no big regulation and amount of fat, sugar, and salt should be limited for the preparation of food items: Shalini Yadav

In India, where there is no big regulation and amount of fat, sugar, and salt should be limited for the preparation of food items: Shalini Yadav, Samajwadi Party leader*

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Shalini Yadav of Samajwadi Party at Public Dialogue on Children’s Nutritional rights and Package food Labelling on 2 December,2021 at Diamond Hotel, #Varanasi

PVCHR, Savitri Bai Phule Mahila Panchayat and Jan Mitra Nyas under whose aegis ‘Public Dialogue on Children’s Nutrition Health and Packaging Food Labelling’ has been organized, MLC Ashutosh Sinha ji, Sudha Chaurasia ji, BJP’s Mahila Morcha functionary Sunita Singh ji, Vandana Shah ji and successful  moderator of this programme, Dr Lenin Raghuvanshi ji, who is conducting the ‘Public Dialogue’ with finesse  and all the responsible citizens who are sitting here in front of me and sisters and brothers seated here. Today, due to the pressure of work, packaged food is catching up fast in India as it is in foreign countries. In our country, when we did not get sick so much, there were fewer diseases and the fatal diseases were negligible because we are all somewhere, the medical facilities were lacking. In our country, when medical facilities were lacking in proportion to the population, the incidence of diseases and fatalities were lower because we did not get sick so often. Some people used to use fresh spices and food items directly, for example, buying spices from the market and grinding them. There was grain kept in every house, which were grinded. Even mustard oil, which is a raw material, is something you will remember being crushed. These nutrients were directly beneficial to the body. In recent years, however, the country has seen that even here in our country, food items packaged in plastic are now being used indiscriminately due to the low level of employment and the minimal family size. They are used in developed foreign nations, but they have created so many standards and follow them very strictly. As a result, the nutrients of those food items remain intact, but not in India, where there is no big regulation and amount of fat, sugar, and salt should be limited for the preparation of food items. There is no monitoring system in India so it has the opposite effect on health. I appreciate the efforts of PVCHR and its affiliates to keep a public dialogue on such an important issue today.

SP leader who contested Lok Sabha elections against PM Narendra Modi in 2019