Mayor Bloomberg trumpets salt reduction

Kraft Singles cheese product was one of the foods cited by Mayor Bloomberg for reducing salt content.

Staff New York Business Journal

Mayor Michael Bloomberg has made public health a major focus of his administration, and the mayor announced that 21 US companies have already met salt-reduction goals set in 2010, according to a report by the New York Times.

Much of the salt reduction was simply a matter of removing salt to the point that customers could not distinguish a difference, the Times said, and the rest was largely achieved with chemistry, by adding salt substitutes.

The Wall Street Journal noted, specifically, that Kraft (NYSE: KRFT) reduced salt in its processed cheese slices by 18 percent, Subway reduced salt in two of its sandwiches by about 27 percent, and Unilever (NYSE: UL) cut salt in one of its tomato sauces by about 20 percent.

However, while the Journal quoted a nutritionist saying this kind of action could have an extremely positive impact on public health, it also quoted Michael Alderman, professor emeritus at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York, saying that there could be unintended consequences for reducing salt across the board in this way.

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