Trans-fat and Government!!!!

Recently news related to trans-fat managed to be in trend. But why???? And what is 

trans-fat???? Why there is need to understand about trans-fat???

Though these categories like trans-fat food and diseases related to them never came in Limelight but few days ago in a newspaper (THE HINDU) it was published, and finally this news gained attention of government of India as well as other Nations.

what happened/summary : government of India as well as government of other Nations took an eminent step regarding the adulteration or mixing of unwanted substances in oil to earn profit.

 Now the whole story: the matter is related to trans-fat and government.

First of all what is fat?? 

 Oil, ghee, butter, olive oil, peanut oil, avocado oil, and vegetable oil. These all are the forms of fats, which is generally consumed by almost everybody in India.

There are three type of fats

1.Mono-saturated 

2.poly-saturated or

3.saturated fatty acids/ trans fatty acid.

let's not talk about above two,  that's mono saturated and poly saturated as they are not much disastrous.

Saturated fatty acids/ artificial trans fat: saturated fatty acids are considered harmful as they are the main culprit of critical diseases like :

1.hypertension 

2.heart attack

3.cardiovascular issues 

Matter in detail :  to earn profit, Industries add hydrogen to liquid vegetable oils to make them solid and to increase the weight.

 these adulterated oil falls in the list of low quality and cheap products / oil.

They cause 1.8 crore deaths every year due to consumption of this oil cum poison by people. 

How India and other nations are acting on it????

1.In 2018 world health organisation(WHO) called for eliminating of these industries produce Trans fatty acids(TFA) by 2023.

2.came out with the idea of "REPLACEMENT" to tackle this.

3. Few countries banned them earlier for instance, 

Denmark 

chile

Switzerland 

US and 

New York

Steps taken in India:

1.India reduced the percentage(%) of Trans fatty acids from 3% to 2% from for 2022 not only in oil but also in other products.

2.Regular training of officers

3.Sampling of food products regularly 

4.Upgradation of food labs 

5.Inspection of food premises

6.Regular surveillance on industries

last but not the least : food safety and standards authority of India (FSSAI) tried their best to reduce the contaminated products to avoid any such disease in future.

With respect,

 The Amendment of "food safety and standards (prohibition and restriction on sales) regulation.

According to them 2/3rd of deaths were linked with consumption of Trans fatty acid in 2022.