From Clair Baynton, UK Food Standards Agency
As Â鶹´«Ã½ reports, New York City has recently launched its “National Salt Reduction Initiative” in a bid to reduce the salt intake and improve the health of its residents (16 January, p 4). The report failed to mention the acknowledgement that New York City gave to the UK’s salt-reduction programme in the creation of its own.
Since 2004, the UK Food Standards Agency has been working closely with industry to encourage reductions in salt levels across a wide range of foods by setting voluntary salt targets. This work has run alongside several high-impact consumer-awareness campaigns and has been very successful in reducing salt intake from 9.5 grams per person per day to 8.6 grams. As referenced by , our work in the UK served as a model for the city’s salt-reduction initiative.
London, UK
