Health Canada says results of voluntary efforts to reduce sodium in processed foods show it’s not happening fast enough
Hypertension Canada conducted a survey that found Canadian consumers want to see better labels on foods and not just improvements to the Nutrition Facts table
Kerry Ingredients & Flavours offers food manufacturers its Flavour Modulation Technology (fmt), helping manufacturers easily reduce sugar and sodium
Researchers surveyed more than 2,000 Canadian consumers and found the majority are concerned about sodium and want the food industry to do something about it
Ontario Food Panel highlights consumer views on sodium consumption, as well as industry responsibility in salt reduction
Food producers are turning to reformulation and salt replacers to voluntarily cut sodium from their products, before it becomes mandatory
The new report by Health Canada’s Multi-Stakeholder Working Group on Sodium Reduction (aka the Sodium Working Group, or SWG) recommends Canadians cut sodium intake to an average Tolerable Upper Intake Level (UL) of 2,300 mg per day by 2016, with…
An analysis of 13 studies on the effects of reducing salt has found that a difference of five grams per day is associated with a 23 per cent difference in the rate of stroke and a 17 per cent difference…
A new report released late last month has found that many packaged foods sold in grocery stores contain unhealthy and unnecessarily high levels of sodium. Full cover of report. In fact, the report Salty to a Fault also found that…
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