NAFDAC, CAPPA, Others Move To Tackle Non-communicable Diseases
Non Communicable Diseases (NCDs), including heart disease, stroke, cancer, diabetes and chronic lung disease, account for quarter of total deaths in Nigeria, the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) has revealed. This is even as the Agency, in collaboration with Corporate Accountability and Public Participation Africa (CAPPA), Global Health Advocacy Incubator […]
NAFDAC fears 20% Nigerians may die from NCDs, moves against solid fats in foods
With Non-Communicable Diseases, NCDs, accounting for 74 per cent of all deaths worldwide, the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control, NAFDAC, has scale-up efforts towards the elimination of Trans Fatty Acid, TFAs, from food supplies in Nigeria. Speaking at a briefing on the newly gazetted fats, oil and food-containing Fats, Oil Regulation […]
NAFDAC announces gazette of regulations to address Transfats consumption in Nigeria
The National Agency for Food and Drugs Administration and Control (NAFDAC) has expressed optimism that Nigerians will enjoy better food quality and health following the recent gazette of the reviewed Fats, Oil and Food containing Fats and Oil Regulation 2022 and the Pre-Packaged Food Labelling Regulation 2022. NAFDAC Director-General, Professor Mojisola Adeyeye who disclosed this […]
Delayed implementation of trans-fats regulation worsening heart diseases – NGOs
Some Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs) have again tasked the federal government to speed up the gazetting of relevant regulations to eliminate Trans-fatty acids (TFAs) from foods by 2023. The Corporate Accountability and Public Participation Africa (CAPPA), in conjunction with the Network for Health Equity and Development (NHED), the Global Health Advocacy Incubator (GHAI) made the call […]
Coalition cautions Nigerians on consumption of fatty foods
A coalition of Civil Society Organisation comprising the Corporate Accountability and Public Participation Africa (CAPPA), the Network for Health Equity and Development (NHED), the Global Health Advocacy Incubator (GHAI) and the Trans Fat Free Nigeria coalition on Monday called on Nigerians to be circumspect and avoid the consumption of Trans-Fatty foods which are risk factors […]
World Food Day: Keeping Everyone Safe From Trans Fats
This year’s World Food Day with the theme: Leave No One behind, is celebrated amid a deteriorating global food security crisis with an all-time high of numbers of people at risk of experiencing serious levels of hunger in different parts of the world. This is especially so among developing countries in Africa and Asia with Nigeria being […]
