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SINGAPORE – From end-2021, pre-packaged non-alcoholic drinks with a high sugar or saturated fat content will be required to display a nutrition label with grades ranging from A to D, with D being the unhealthiest.
Retailers will also be banned from advertising D-grade drinks on all media platforms.
The same measures will next be applied to freshly prepared drinks, such as those from bubble tea chains, traditional medicine halls and smoothie chains.
These moves, announced on Thursday (March 5) by Senior Minister of State for Health Edwin Tong in Parliament, in addition to a growing presence of water dispensers to coax people to drink plain water, are part of Singapore’s war on diabetes.
Speaking earlier at the session, Health Minister Gan Kim Yong said: “To win the war on diabetes, we will need concerted, multi-year efforts, and many of these will only bear fruit in the long term.”
Singaporeans spend about 10 years of their life in ill health, he pointed out, and the battle against diabetes is part of efforts to reduce the burden of chronic disease here. About 19,000 people here are diagnosed with diabetes here each year.
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