Dhaka, May 19 -- Speakers at a seminar on Tuesday called formandatory warning-based Front-of-Package Labelling (FOPL) on packaged foods to help reduce the growing burden of non-communicable diseases including hypertension, diabetes, cardiovascular diseases, obesity and cancer in Bangladesh.

Speakers made this call at a two-day journalists' workshop organized by PROGGA (Knowledge for Progress) with support from Global Health Advocacy Incubator (GHAI), held on 18-19 May at the Bangladesh Medical Association (BMA) Bhaban in the capital.

A total of 27 journalists from print, television, and online media participated in the workshop titled "Front-of-Package Labelling in Bangladesh: Importance, Progress and the Way Forward."

The workshop hig...