To be specific, the Ministry of Health has set tasks for formulating nutrition-relevant policies to satisfy emergent and urgent nutrition issues such as:
- Regulations on limiting advertising, promotion and sponsorship of brands for unhealthy foods, especially for children and imposing excise taxes on sugar-sweetened beverages.
- Policies on health insurance covering counseling and treatment services for children with severe acute malnutrition; covering pasteurized donor human milk for infants, premature and ill infants who have not yet accessed to their mothers’ milk; etc.
- Technical guidelines for micronutrient fortification of food.
- Technical standards for school meals, regulations on nutrition and physical activities in schools, regulations on operation of school canteens and assurance about the supply of healthy food for students.
- Guidelines on proper national nutrition, appropriate physical activities for target groups and prevention and control of overweight, obesity and non-communicable diseases.
- Recommendations on workers' meals suitable to their jobs, which will be disseminated and applied in production and business facilities and industrial zones.
- Guidelines for nutrition counseling and breastfeeding support for workers who do not work under employment contracts, etc.
For more details, see Decision No. 1294/QD-BYT coming into force from the day on which it is signed.
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