trans fats
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Dismantling remaining barriers to be trans fat free by 2023
18th November 2020
In collaboration with Resolve to Save Lives, the NCD Alliance presented a high-level virtual event on 17 November 2020 on strategies to eliminate industrially-produced trans fatty acids (iTFA) from the global food supply.
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Dismantling remaining barriers to be trans fat free by 2023
16th October 2020
This virtual event, organised by NCD Alliance and Resolve to Save Lives will focus on what is working well in industrially produced trans fatty acids (iTFA) elimination strategies with a particular regional focus, and on where gaps to achieve iTFA elimination still exist.
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Global Trans Fat Elimination: Launch of WHO’s 2020 Progress Report
09th September 2020
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.
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Steps taken to eliminate TFA in Pakistan
15th June 2020
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.
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Leading progress on trans fat elimination in Mexico and Pakistan
30th July 2019
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.