Substantial progress has been made on the removal of harmful trans fat from food: 58 countries have introduced laws to date that will protect more than 3 billion people from the toxic fat. 

Heartfile publishes a situational analysis on trans fatty acid (TFA) elimination in Pakistan in the Journal of the Pakistan Medical Association (May 2020). It provides an overview of TFA sources in Pakistan, introducing the country’s regulatory framework governing food, and suggests steps to eliminate industrially-produced TFA from the Pakistani diet.

In July 2019, Heartlife and Mexico SaludHable held stakeholder meetings to start joint work on trans fat elimination in Pakistan and Mexico based on the REPLACE action package.

In June 2019, Resolve to Save Lives, Vital Strategies, World Health Organization (WHO) and WHO Regional Office for the Eastern Mediterranean co-hosted a four-day course based on the REPLACE action package in Beirut, Lebanon.

This spotlight update on NCDA’s work to accelerate trans fat elimination shares recent activities, new resources and ways to get involved.