The voluntary goals finalized Wednesday for 163 foods are intended to help lower the amount of salt people eat. A majority of the sodium in U.S. diets comes from packaged or restaurant foods -- not the salt added to meals at home -- making it hard for people to make changes on their own.
Over the next 2.5 years, the FDA's target sodium levels aim to cut average intake by 12% -- from 3,400 to 3,000 milligrams a day. That would still leave average intake above the federally recommended limit of 2,300 milligrams a day for people 14 and older. But the agency says it will monitor industry progress and keep issuing updated targets to bring levels closer to the recommended limit over time.
Mozaffarian said some food companies resisted reduced sodium targets, but that more scientific support has emerged for the federal guidance on sodium. In 2019, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine tied the recommended limit to a reduced risk of chronic disease. A recent study in China also found lower rates of stroke and major heart-related events among people using a salt substitute compared with those using regular salt.
Try telling that to fucking McDonalds
They really should be encouraging a massive reduction in sugar! Between salt and sugar content, the food industry is killing folks!
As long as they don't reduce the size of holes in a saltshaker lid, must people don't have the technical know how to enlarge them!
About time, continued excessive salt in the diet is harmful.