Noida: All schools should impose restrictions on the sale of junk food within a 100-yard radius, just like they do with cigarettes, stated environmentalist and founder of the Centre for Science and Environment, Sunita Narain. A CSE study based on laboratory tests conducted by them between July and November, 2019 found levels of salt, fat and sugar much higher than thresholds set by the Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) in such food.
In a press conference held by Narain on Tuesday at India Habitat Centre, the CSE chief said, most packaged food and fast food items being sold in India contain “dangerously” high levels of salt and fat in them. She added that a lack of upfront labelling to alert consumers of this high content of sugar, salt and fat, fails to dissuade parents from stopping children from consuming junk food.
“The target of the junk food industry are children and each day, if a child has just a packet of chips or a bowl of instant noodles, he or she exhausts the entire day's quota of salt or sugar intake,” Sunita Narain said.
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