Addressing a function held at Meerigama, Health Mimister has said that Government has given priority to protect people from non communicable diseases caused due to things like Soft Drinks marketed by these companies not to provide concessions to the companies .
These Soft Drink Companies are spreading non communicable diseases among consumers by selling Soft Drinks with higher sugar content and due to this Government need to spend a large amount of money to treat persons with non communicable diseases he has said.
These Companies should act fairly in their businesses and their purpose should be to serve the people Minister has stressed.
Ministry of Health has recently introduced traffic light system for soft drinks and under this system the labels of Soft Drinks should display the sugar content of the Soft Drinks .
Government has also introduced a tax system to be imposed on Soft Drinks through the Annual Budget.
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