FDA Sodium Reduction Effort Long Time Coming

Even then, the science was compelling. Excessive consumption of sodium, mainly from salt in foods, leads to hypertension, increasing the risk of fatal heart attacks and strokes. So, today’s announcement by the FDA that it is releasing draft guidance for industry of voluntary targets for sodium levels in processed and restaurant foods is a modest step forward, albeit an important one. That is why one should take with more than a grain of salt any sky-is-falling rhetoric from some food manufacturers and a few academic outliers.