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Salt Awareness Week 2022

The Next Salt Awareness Week Campaign will be taking place 14-20th March 2022

This year's National Salt Awareness Week will take place between 14th - 20th March, and will shine a spotlight on a simple yet effective approach that will improve our health – asking the food industry to shake their salt habit! 

Too much salt can harm our health, leading to unnecessary deaths from heart attacks and strokes. Salt reduction policies targeted specifically at the food industry are necessary and proportional: three quarters of the salt the UK eats each day is already in packaged and prepared foods. This cannot be removed by the consumer, so simply telling people to eat less salt will not work when our food is full of it. 

Salt reduction has been a feature of UK food policy for two decades and is accepted globally as a cost-effective strategy to improve public health. The UK’s salt reduction model has inspired the world and to date, more than 90 countries now have some form of salt reduction policy in place, yet there is still so much further to go. 

This year, join us as we ask the food industry to shake their salt habit, so that we can all live longer, healthier lives.

If you would like to be involved this year, whether you are a food business, a charity, a community organisation, a politician, a school, or a libertarian think tank, we would love to hear from you!

Please get in touch: cash@qmul.ac.uk 

Support our campaign and join the conversation on Twitter: #SaltAwarenessWeek

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