date:Jun 22, 2016
The latest chapter in the ongoing debate over the extent to which the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) should regulate the amount of salt in foods began on October 8, 2015, when the Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI) filed suit against FDA in federal court. The suit seeks an order requiring the agency to act on a 10-year-old petition requesting that FDA treat salt as a food additive under the law and revoke its GRAS (generally recognized as safe) status.
In recent years, FD