{"id":144603,"date":"2025-07-01T18:49:01","date_gmt":"2025-07-01T18:49:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/all-news\/kenya-requires-health-warnings-on-90-packaged-food"},"modified":"2025-07-01T19:11:40","modified_gmt":"2025-07-01T19:11:40","slug":"kenya-requires-health-warnings-on-90-packaged-food","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/all-news\/kenya-requires-health-warnings-on-90-packaged-food","title":{"rendered":"Kenya Requires Health Warnings on 90% Packaged Food"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Kenya. <\/strong><\/span>Most packaged food and beverages in Kenya fail to meet new government nutrition requirements and should be labelled with a health warning, according to a report by the NGO Access to Nutrition Initiative.<\/p>\n<p>Last month, Kenya\u2019s Ministry of Health released its nutrient profile model which requires processed food with high levels of sugar, fat and salt to carry a mandatory front-of-package warning label.<\/p>\n<p>The initiative is considered a crucial step in combating the emerging obesity crisis hitting all of Africa: 45% of women and 26% of men in Africa will be overweight or obese by 2030 according to the World Obesity Foundation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAfrica is facing a growing problem of obesity and overweight, and the trends are rising. This is a ticking time bomb. If unchecked, millions of people, including children, risk living shorter lives under the burden of poor health,\u201d said Dr Matshidiso Moeti, WHO Regional Director for Africa.<\/p>\n<p>WTO figures show that 37% of deaths in Africa were related to overweight in 2019 rising from 24% in 2000.<\/p>\n<p>In step with Africa\u2019s economic transformation, there has been a significant shift in food habits across the continent, according to the global health organisation. With a larger urban population, higher incomes and a proliferation of supermarkets and fast-food chains, diets increasingly include hyper-processed foods.<\/p>\n<p>Large multinational companies have also been accused of exacerbating the malnutrition crisis by selling less healthy products in low-income countries compared to those in wealthier nations, ATNI found.<\/p>\n<p>The Kenyan nutrition label is just the latest initiative aimed at strengthening food regulation and increasing consumer awareness about healthy nutrition after a new 4% sugar tax was introduced in February.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Kenya<\/span> Follow <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Africa-Press<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Kenya. Most packaged food and beverages in Kenya fail to meet new government nutrition requirements and should be labelled with a health warning, according to a report by the NGO Access to Nutrition Initiative. 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