USDA Request for Comments on Draft Guidance for Sodium Reduction in Food
The U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA) published a draft guidance outlining new, voluntary targets for sodium reduction in foods. This draft guidance serves as Phase II of FDA’s stepwise sodium reduction efforts and builds on the sodium reduction goals issued in 2021, now referred to as Phase I. Phase II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 The deadline to submit comments on the draft guidance is November 14th.