FDA to set rules for salt in food

Posted on 20. Apr, 2010 by The One in Health

The health police cometh and cometh and cometh. With health care on the fast track to being completely federalized, the Obama Administration has made it clear they want a massive regulation campaign to change how Americans eat and drink. Today, they made their most sweeping move yet.

The Food and Drug Administration is planning an unprecedented effort to gradually reduce the salt consumed each day by Americans, saying that less sodium in everything from soup to nuts would prevent thousands of deaths from hypertension and heart disease. The initiative, to be launched this year, would eventually lead to the first legal limits on the amount of salt allowed in food products.

The government intends to work with the food industry and health experts to reduce sodium gradually over a period of years to adjust the American palate to a less salty diet, according to FDA sources, who spoke on condition of anonymity because the initiative had not been formally announced.

The government hasn’t regulated salt previously because it hasn’t regarded it as a particularly potent health threat. But with a few bogus studies in hand claiming that salt intake is becoming a serious health problem, the FDA has determined that more regulation is the only solution. They have yet to figure out how any of this will work. But regardless, pretzels and potato chips are likely to become less tasty very soon.

The FDA has become more and more activist lately. Recently it announced plans to force food manufacturers to slap nutrition facts on the front of food packages in an attempt to fight obesity.

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