Russians will protect themselves from white and sweet deaths. Domestic producers will have to reduce the content of salt and sugar in food products, frequent and unregulated consumption of which contributes to the development of obesity and other diseases. With such an initiative, the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation.

The Office proposes to adopt the relevant documents at the level of the Eurasian Economic Union. The necessary norms can be established by means of amendments to technical regulations, Izvestia writes,.

While manufacturers themselves determine the composition of products. And one of the technical regulations in force in the EAEC - "On the Safety of Food Products" - requires only components that can not be used or can be used, but not more than this limit, the Rospotrebnadzor. It can be pesticides, hormones, metal salts.

The commission has not received proposals on changes in the requirements of technical regulations of the Customs Union from the Ministry of Health of Russia, the press service of the ECE. Therefore, "they did not go to the member states of the union".

The draft strategy is still being discussed in the framework of interagency coordination, the Ministry of Health said..

In Russia, they can limit the production and sale of products containing an increased level of trans-isomers of fatty acids. In which specific cases and what measures will be taken, it is not yet clear. In addition, the Ministry of Health is preparing a list of meat and fish products, semi-finished products, bakery products with the recommended content of salt in them. The agency proposes to introduce additional sales taxes for these products if the salt content in them exceeds the recommended.

In Rospotrebnadzor can offer amendments to the technical regulations "Food products in terms of its labeling". They establish an order of reliable information to consumers about the content of fat, sugar and salt in processed food products, and not reduce it.

How much salt should be in the products, scientists must discuss, said the head of the Executive Committee of the National Meat Association Sergei Yushin. And "if a sausage person seems unsalted, he will salute her at home," he added..

The salt content can be reduced without damage to the products - "according to standards and technical conditions it is normalized as" no more ", the sugar content is not standardized at all," noted the representative of the National Union of meat processors Ekaterina Kantor.

And the executive director of the Association of Confectionery Industry Enterprises, Vyacheslav Lashmankin, does not believe that the recipe of bakery products approved in the Soviet era can be changed so easily with regard to the use of sugar.

The strategy of the Ministry of Health for the formation of a healthy lifestyle also assumes a reduction in mortality from cardiovascular, oncological, chronic bronchopulmonary diseases and diabetes by 25%. A high level of death due to such diseases leads to large economic losses - both direct costs of medical care, and losses in the economy due to the reduction of labor resources.

In 2014 year. In Russia, the economic damage from cardiovascular diseases exceeded 1 trillion rubles. From 1993 to 2013. The prevalence of obesity in men increased sharply from 9% to 27%, and in women - from 28% to 31%.