The Kenyan Bureau of Standards and the East African Community (EAC) co-hosted a regional workshop in Nairobi that brought together leadership from seven East African partner states, including government delegates from national standards boards, ministries of health, and key partners including UNICEF, WHO, GHAI, WFP and CSO partners, to discuss progress on trans fat elimination.
The workshop also supported alignment across EAC countries to support an international food standard to protect nutrition of older infants and young children ahead of the 45th Codex Committee meeting in November.
We are proud to partner with the EAC on this work. To date, TFA elimination policies have protected more than half the world’s population from toxic trans fat in foods. Successfully advancing best practice policies in the EAC would protect an additional 330 million.
