Processed Food: Salt and Sodium Levels

Bob Spink
To ask the Secretary of State for Health what representations (a) her Department and (b) the Food Standards Agency has received on the Food Standards Agency's recommendations on salt and sodium levels in processed food.

Caroline Flint
The Food Standards Agency received 75 responses from a wide range of stakeholders to its consultation on the voluntary salt reduction targets, which took place in 2005. These representations can be viewed on the FSA's website at www.food.gov.uk.

Since publication of the targets in March 2006, the FSA and the Department have received a small number of letters from interested parties on the targets/work in this area.