The voice of the salt industry is now silent, and no details about why have been forthcoming. However, NPR reported the group’s former longtime president, Dick Hanneman, said the Salt Institute had fewer than a dozen member companies funding it when he left in 2010.###”So if a few large comis ferrous sulfate ironpaferrous bisglycinate folic acid syrupnies lose interest in itferrous sulfate generic brand, then the funding goes away,” he told NPR. “My sense of it is that there’s a lot of change in the corporate structure of salt companies.”###In advocating for salt consumption, the institute said in 2014 that Americans were eating the right amount of salt, aniron ferrous sulfate dosed if they got too much, the body wouferrous fumarate contain ironld simply eliminate it. However, as Food Business News pointed out, the group’s views on healthy levels of sodium consumption were not the same as those of other consumer health related organizations and governmental regulatory agencies.###The 2015-2020 Dietary Guidelines for Americans recommend sodium levels are kept below 2,300 milligrams daily. However, according to Food Business News, the Salt Institute cited a Lancet study last summer that found sodium intake only associated with cardiovascular disease and strokes in communities where the average intake was greater than five grams — or 5,000 mg — per day.
Salt Institute shuts down as new dietary policy discussion begins
