Obama Administration Goes After Salt

A girl shovels salt inside a Salt factory

The Obama administration is setting sodium limits for nearly every food imaginable, the latest in a series of efforts to change how Americans eat.

The voluntary standards are meant to nudge restaurants and the food industry into reducing the amount of sodium in foods they serve. And the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is offering its preferred salt amounts for everything from Gouda cheese to fish jerky.

The administration said the purpose of the sodium limits are to “support increased food choice.”

“Every day, Americans are getting too much sodium in their diet, and the majority comes from processed and prepared foods, not the salt shaker,” the FDA said. “That is why we have developed draft guidance with sodium reduction targets to encourage industry to gradually reduce sodium in a wide range of foods.”

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bogsidebunny
bogsidebunny
9 years ago

Salt does have its use,

Tell the C-in-C: “Pound salt up your ass”!

foothillslife
9 years ago

Clearly, if people die from salt intake, they can’t pay taxes and vote for democrats.

emdfl
emdfl
9 years ago

purpose “to increase food choice”… By reducing the amount of salt we are increasing food choice, uh huh; And up is down, war is peace, and we have always been at war with Easturasia.
Consider how much damage to the health of the American population the fedgov has done over the years with its “food pyramid”.

norseman
norseman
9 years ago

naaaa purpose of salt decrease is so they’ll have more to make explosives with to use against us ! haha sounds good any way and probably not real far from truth