2024 Author: Jasmine Walkman | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 08:29
In just a few days, the project for a public health tax, the work of the Minister of Health Petar Moskov and the Minister of Youth and Sports Krasen Kralev, will be published. They announced the start of a government campaign for a healthy generation.
The aim of the project is to encourage the nation to build healthy habits by increasing the tax on harmful foods. It includes restricting the consumption of all unhealthy products such as fast food, products high in salt, sugar, preservatives, sweeteners, energy and carbonated beverages, sweets and pastries, candy, chewing gum, lollipops and more.
A tax on harmful foods will hit the Bulgarian in the pocket. This is the only option to build healthy habits. The project will work in three directions - healthy eating, active movement and prevention of youth from alcohol and drugs.
The idea for the project was discussed with nutritionists. They are adamant that such measures are not only advisable but also imperative. In Bulgaria, the percentage of children who suffer from obesity, type 2 diabetes and are prone to high blood pressure and bad cholesterol is increasing every year.
With age, there is an increased demand for more and more harmful foods. Experts explain this with stress. And demand determines supply. This leads manufacturers to produce more and more new products in the form of energy drinks, chips and all sorts of caffeinated products.
In the project for tax on harmful foods A total of four groups of goods will be affected - caffeinated foods and beverages, products with added sugar, those that contain more than 10 grams of salt per kilogram, and those that contain trans fatty acids.
Similar projects are already being implemented in countries such as Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Austria, Ireland and Turkey. In this way, manufacturers are obliged to change the composition and limit the sugar, salt, trans fats in the products. This way they avoid fees, but reduce the weight of the product. If they decide not to do so, they pay high fees, which increases the price of the final product and often denies consumers.
Some time ago, experts tried to pass the adopted Ordinance banning the sale of chips, waffles, dry pastes in school shops. Instead, the children had to be offered vegetables, fruits and sandwiches with wholemeal bread, fish, cheese and yellow cheese. However, the project failed.
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