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Article: Doctors call on food companies and restaurants to curb use of salt.
- Article from:
- Food & Drink Weekly
- Article date:
- June 19, 2006
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The American Medical Association last week overwhelmingly agreed to back a campaign to halve the amount of sodium in restaurant and processed foods over the next 10 years. At the same time, the nation's largest doctors group urged FDA to revoke rules that have allowed sodium to go unregulated for decades. The rule has allowed salt and its component sodium to be treated as "generally recognized as safe."
The move by the AMA's 544-member House of Delegates to back revocation of the special status salt has enjoyed is similar to a petition filed last fall by the Center for Science in the Public Interest, a Washington-based advocacy group, seeking to void the rule.
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