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Too much salt? Regulators!
Posted: February 24, 2005, 10:43 pm
by Fash
http://reuters.myway.com/article/200502 ... LT-DC.html
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A consumer group sued the federal government Thursday, saying that salt is killing tens of thousands of Americans and that regulators have done too little to control salt in food.
Despite advisories to take it easy on sodium, Americans are now consuming about 4,000 milligrams a day -- nearly double the recommended limit to keep blood pressure under control, the Center for Science in the Public Interest said.
So the CSPI renewed a lawsuit first filed in 1983 to ask federal courts to force the Food and Drug Administration to declare sodium a food additive instead of categorizing it as "generally recognized as safe." This would give the agency the authority to set limits for salt in foods.
"There is no way the FDA can look at the science and say with a straight face that salt is 'generally recognized as safe,"' CSPI executive director Michael Jacobson said in a statement.
"In fact, salt is generally recognized as unsafe, because it is a major cause of heart attacks and stroke. The federal government should require food manufacturers to gradually lower their sodium levels."
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Warren G had no comment.
Posted: February 24, 2005, 11:14 pm
by Animalor
Watch out or the Salt Lobby'll getcha!
Posted: February 24, 2005, 11:40 pm
by Tenuvil
ahaha, further evidence of my "Demolition Man" hypothesis...first smoking is banned, then salt. Soon all the restaurants will be Taco Bell!
Posted: February 24, 2005, 11:43 pm
by nobody
and that would be a bad thing why!? taco bell pwns me!
Posted: February 24, 2005, 11:44 pm
by Boogahz
Taco Bell pwns all bowels
Posted: February 24, 2005, 11:55 pm
by Soreali
nobody wrote:and that would be a bad thing why!? taco bell pwns me!
Posted: February 25, 2005, 12:20 am
by Arborealus
Didn't we accomplish anything in the SALT and SALT 2 talks?!
(I so just dated myself
)
Posted: February 25, 2005, 12:40 am
by Winnow
Arborealus wrote:Didn't we accomplish anything in the SALT and SALT 2 talks?!
(I so just dated myself
)
I don't know what you're talking about
Posted: February 25, 2005, 12:49 am
by Nilaman
I like salt
Posted: February 25, 2005, 1:38 am
by Chidoro
Arborealus wrote:Didn't we accomplish anything in the SALT and SALT 2 talks?!
(I so just dated myself
)
Not to everyone
Posted: February 25, 2005, 11:23 am
by Siji
This is the same FDA that's had the food pyramid wrong for how many years? They can do anything with a straight face.
Posted: February 25, 2005, 8:22 pm
by Chmee
Interesting article about the scientific debate about salt and high blood pressure.
http://www.stat.berkeley.edu/users/rice/Stat2/salt.html
Posted: February 25, 2005, 8:52 pm
by Ebumar
Boogahz wrote:Taco Bell pwns all bowels
Yeah - I was just gona say - explosive diareah anyone?