On May 2, 2023, Nepalese newspaper myRepublica reported that the country’s Department of Food Technology and Quality Control is planning to ban the use of newspaper as a packaging material for street food. The announcement came from the Director General of the department, Dr Matina Joshi Vaidhya, at a meeting in Kathmandu. According to the paper, the department is invoking the Food Act to make the regulation since “such papers [newsprint] contain chemicals that have a dangerous effect on health.”
Reference
myRepublica (May 2, 2023). “Govt prepares to ban use of printing paper for packaging street food.”
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Government of Nepal (1967). “Food Act, 2023 (1967).” (pdf).
