World Heart Day: CAPPA Warns on Bouillon Fortification - Lagos Television

World Heart Day: CAPPA warns against bouillon cubes fortification - NewsTmes.com.ng

Corporate Accountability and Public Participation Africa, CAPPA, has called on the Federal Government to rethink any plan to make bouillon cubes a mandatory vehicle for micronutrient fortification and warned that adding vitamins and minerals to a highly processed food does not remove concerns about its sodium content. The group made the call on Tuesday, September …

World Heart Day: Nigeria Needs Nutrition Policies To Address Malnutrition, Diet Related NCDs - CAPPA

As the world marks World Heart Day today, Corporate Accountability and Public Participation Africa (CAPPA) has said Nigeria needs nutrition policies that address the country’s double burden of malnutrition and diet-related non-communicable diseases together, rather than solving one problem in ways that could intensify another. The group also warned the Federal Government against policies that […]

World Heart Day: CAPPA warns on bouillon fortification - Lagos Television

Corporate Accountability and Public Participation Africa (CAPPA) has urged the Federal Government to strengthen measures to reduce sodium consumption and introduce mandatory front-of-pack warning labels on unhealthy foods. The organisation also called for tighter regulation of unhealthy-food marketing, while warning against making bouillon cube fortification a mandatory nutrition policy. CAPPA made the demands in a...

CAPPA raises alarm over salt content in bouillon cubes

CAPPA also rejected the argument that the widespread consumption of bouillon cubes makes them an appropriate vehicle for mandatory fortification.