Political parties come together for a ‘good for India’ front-of-pack label regulation
Public Dialogue on Children’s Nutritional rights and Package food Labelling:  Addressing Double burden of Malnutrition in India  Date:  2 nd  December, 2021  Time: 3:00 to 5:00 pm with High Tea              Venue:  Hotel Diamond, Bhelupur, Varanasi Total participation: 213   Sub-optimal or poor nutrition is escalating diet related non communicable diseases (DR-NCDs) in India, putting at risk millions of children. A country with the greatest number of malnourished children in the world, India is home to around 15 million obese children and 45 million who are stunted. At a public dialogue in Varanasi, senior members of major political parties came together to sound a clarion call for India to adopt front-of-pack labels (FOPL), an important and timely policy fix to address the country’s double burden of malnutrition (DBM).   Recent studies of low and middle income countries with DBM have revealed that children and adults in the poorest income quintile face a g...
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