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Sunday, August 13, 2006

Food Retailers are making it more difficult for you to reduce your salt intake to a safer level!

Check out how the Food Industry and certain Food Retailers don't seem to mind damaging the health of their customers! -

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,8122-2296901,00.html

This report begins with

"BRITAIN’S biggest food companies united to convince regulators to reduce tough targets for cutting the level of salt in their products, The Times has learnt.

Household names were prominent in campaigning for a gentler approach by the Food Standards Agency, according to documents released under the Freedom of Information Act. Marks & Spencer, Tesco, Waitrose and Nestlé were some of the powerful players who pushed hard to persuade the FSA to adopt less demanding goals, the papers reveal
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And check out the facts in relation to certain categories of food. - You may be surprised at what you read! - Here is an extract from the following press release:

“This is a broadly disappointing report. It reveals a food industry still defending the use of excess salt in processed foods based upon weak arguments referring to 'technical reasons' and 'food safety' which are very largely irrelevant to contemporary food processing conditions."

Consensus Action on Salt and Health

You may like to consider writing to Marks and Spencer, Tesco and the others to suggest that the health of their customers should have a higher priority. - The harmfully high levels of salt that big business has ladelled into so many of its products over the years have surely done enough damage to consumers already, and the food industry should be seeking to make up for its wrong-doing, not seeking to be allowed to continue it...

And how is it that the FSA cannot stick to its guns? - It is a government agency, after all. - Toothless, is it? - Or what?