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FDA to Amend Standards of Identity to Include Salt Substitutes

The FDA aims to give food manufacturers the flexibility to reduce sodium content in standardized foods in alignment with the agency’s public health goals.

May 6, 2025

The FDA aims to give food manufacturers the flexibility to reduce sodium content in standardized foods in alignment with the agency’s public health goals.

FDA issues guidance on reducing sodium in processed, packaged goods

October 13, 2021

The FDA issued a final guidance, “Voluntary Sodium Reduction Goals: Target Mean and Upper Bound Concentrations for Sodium in Commercially Processed, Packaged, and Prepared Foods,” which provides voluntary short-term sodium reduction targets.

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FDA clarifies compliance dates for nutrition initiatives

Partially hydrogenated oils, Nutrition Fact labels, vending machines all face new regulations

December 9, 2016

Summer of 2018 to bring a number of compliance dates for key nutrition initiatives.

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FDA extends comment period on sodium reductions

Comment periods extended for Draft Guidance to Industry for Voluntarily Reducing Sodium.

October 26, 2016

Dates extended for short-term sodium reductions targets and issues related to 10-year targets.

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Sodium reduction

August 2, 2016

FDA has issued draft guidance for public comment that targets reducing the food industry’s use of sodium.

FDA issues new sodium reduction goals

Jeremy Gerrard

June 1, 2016

FDA has issued a draft guidance of its long-awaited voluntary sodium reduction goals.

Nestlé Announces Support for Lower Sodium Targets

Jeremy Gerrard

May 6, 2016

As FDA mulls establishing guidelines on sodium levels in packaged food, Nestlé says it is taking additional steps to helping consumers reduce their sodium intake.