Canadian health minister takes sodium-reduction plan off the table
Canadian Federal Health Minister Leona Aglukkaq has killed a proposal that would have outed food companies for failing to meet specific sodium-reduction targets for individual products. Bill Jeffery, a member of the Sodium Working Group, the body convened by Health Canada that came up with the sodium target last year, said Friday's development is bad news for Canada's sodium reduction strategy. "This is the first signal that this voluntary scheme is ill-fated," said Jeffery, national co-ordinator of the Centre for Science in the Public Interest.