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    Eliminating Trans Fatty Acids from National Food Supply will Prevent and Control Non-Communicable Diseases (2022)

    Industrially produced trans fatty acids (iTFAs) cause;

    • Over 500,000 deaths each year globally
    • Increased risk of death by any cause by 34%, coronary heart disease deaths by 28%, and coronary heart disease by 21

    Eliminating iTFA is important for Kenya to achieve national health goals such as universal health coverage as well as the Sustainable Development Goal 3. Kenya will also join the world in the iTFA global elimination goal by the year 2023. By eliminating iTFA, the government will cut a lot on healthcare costs resulting from iTFA-related diseases and subsequent loss of production.

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