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Obesity targeted in national regulation
By Huo Yongzhe (China Daily)
Updated: 2005-07-18 05:32
SHANGHAI: China is to work out a national nutrition regulation to safeguard
healthier nutrition intake and ensure food safety among all of its 1.3 billion
population.
A boy is doing
exercise during at summer camp organized for overweight
yongsters in Changzhou, Jiangsu Province, July 7, 2005.
[newsphoto/file] | The country could also
establish a national nutrition working committee a planned ministerial
government department to oversee the development and healthy growth of the
sector.
The regulation, which has been in the pipeline for more than a year and is
now under revision by the Ministry of Health, will be submitted to the State
Council for approval later this year and could be put into place early next
year, according to Zhang Chengyu, assistant counsel of the department of health
policy and legislation under the Ministry of Health.
It will become the country's first regulation specialized in nutrition
improvement and enforcement following some previously released rulings to
protect food safety in China.
The new regulation is aimed at raising awareness among Chinese citizens and
protecting them, in order to have a better nutrition supply and intake, said
Zhang.
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