Table 4 Supporting quotes describing the economic feasibility of product reformulation
Key theme | Quotes |
|---|---|
Reducing costs of vanaspati | “Business is so competitive, everybody has to be on their toes to cut down the cost”. |
“People have already started using this [palm] stearin…so the unscrupulous people they are selling at a very low price…we can’t play with the health of the people so we better decide to stop the production [of vanaspati]”. | |
Industry capacity | “They [government] talk about trans [fat] reducing, trans [fat] reducing, trans [fat] reducing but…they are not looking at the holistic picture of what it means for the industry to cope with that”. |
Compliance with regulation | “If someone is not doing it…we should not make people suffer from the health point of view - let bigger companies start [complying with the regulation]”. |