Fat causes tax in Denmark

• May 1, 2024

Denmark On October 1, it became the first country in the world to introduce a tax on grease , that is, a surcharge on foods that are high in saturated fat, considered harmful to health, because it can cause diseases such as obesity wave diabetes .

With this measure, the Danish government seeks a reduction of 10% in the number of people obese in that country, although it does not suffer a problem as serious as other countries in Europe such as the United Kingdom, where the rate of overweight It is 20%.

According to information from the portal of the BBC , the products will be taxed for containing more than 2.3% of saturated fat , such as butter, milk, cheese, pizza, meat, oil and processed foods, such as cookies and cakes.

Consumers have tried to prevent the rise of prices and even some producers complain that the tax is a "bureaucratic nightmare".

The Federation of Food and Beverages of that country said that Danes could cross the border to make purchases to avoid making such payment.

For their part, some scientists think that saturated fat can be the wrong target, because they say that salt, sugar and refined carbohydrates are more harmful to health.

In this way, the authorities expect that the premature deaths caused by cardiovascular diseases .

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