Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of mandatory salt targets on the public's health in the context of evidence of the effectiveness of mandatory salt targets in South Africa.
Discussions with food industry representatives continue as part of the ongoing salt and wider reformulation programme. Reducing population salt intakes would reduce the risk of high blood pressure and hence cardiovascular disease. New salt reduction targets for the food industry were published in September 2020. The first report on the food industry’s progress towards achieving these targets is expected later in 2022.