Carefully coordinated, even choreographed, the anti-salt campaign launched another publicity barrage today, announcing that the UK CASH (Consensus Action Against Salt) has been superseded by WASH, the World Action Against Salt. CASH experts (Dr. Graham MacGregor, et al) will be in Paris tomorrow and Friday, having persuaded the World Health Organization to host a one-sided symposium on salt to build pressure for action. The announcement was made in foodnavigator.com .
Meanwhile, the science is unchanged, trending against WASH as public health agencies consider whether their earlier focus on the blood pressure effects of salt reduction should remain the scientific focus or whether, as advocated by the presidents of the International Society of Hypertension and American Society of Hypertension, the focus should broaden to consider whether reducing dietary salt will improve public health .
