Voluntary Sodium Reduction Goals (Edition 2) Draft Guidance and Preliminary Assessment of Progress

The U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA) hosted a stakeholder webinar on Thursday, October 10, 2024, at 1:00 pm ET to provide an overview of the recently released draft guidance outlining new, voluntary targets for sodium reduction in foods, as well as a preliminary assessment of progress 2010-2022. The draft guidance serves as Phase II of the FDA’s stepwise sodium reduction efforts and builds on the sodium reduction goals issued in 2021, now referred to as Phase I. Phase II contains three-year sodium reduction targets for 163 food categories that are commercially processed and packaged or prepared in food service establishments such as restaurants. The targets are intended to help address the excess intake of sodium in the U.S.-which is currently almost 50 percent more on average than the recommended limit.
Draft Guidance - www.fda.gov/re...
Preliminary Assessment of Progress (2010 - 2022) - www.fda.gov/fo...
Sodium Reduction in the Food Supply - www.fda.gov/fo...