减盐电子周刊 第十三期

Upcoming Webinar on Reducing Sodium in Congregate and Home Delivered Meals Please save the date for the upcoming webinar Million Hearts® for Millions of Meals: Reducing Sodium in Home Delivered and Congregate Meals. The webinar will take place on Thursday, March 13, 2014 from 3:00–4:30 p.m. Eastern Time; content will highlight how meeting national recommendations for sodium intake in home delivered and congregate meal settings and putting into action successful sodium reduction strategies in the Meals on Wheels program can contribute to preventing 1 million heart attacks and strokes by 2017. The webinar also will include a discussion around working with food distributors to reduce sodium. This webinar will be co-hosted by Million Hearts® and the National Resource Center on Nutrition and Aging, one of the resource centers supported by the Administration for Community Living.

Seats are limited; to register, visit: https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/2833489100459019777.

FDA Proposes Changes to Nutrition Facts Label

Recently, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) proposed updates to the Nutrition Facts label for packaged foods. Among other things, the proposed updates would –

·Reduce the Daily Value for sodium, from 2,400 mg to 2,300 mg.

·Update serving size requirements to reflect amounts currently eaten.

·Require that potassium be included on the food label.

FDA is accepting electronic and written comments on the proposed rule by June 2, 2014. Comments may be submitted electronically through the Federal eRulemaking Portal athttp://www.regulations.gov. More information may be found here: http://www.fda.gov/NewsEvents/Newsroom/PressAnnouncements/ucm387418.htm. Please visit https://www.federalregister.gov/articles/2014/03/03/2014-04387/food-labeling-revision-of-the-nutrition-and-supplement-facts-labels and https://www.federalregister.gov/articles/2014/03/03/2014-04385/food-labeling-serving-sizes-of-foods-that-can-reasonably-be-consumed-at-one-eating-occasion for the Federal Register notices.

World Salt Awareness Week and New Resources Related to Sodium Reduction and Healthful Food Procurement Please see below for information on the upcoming World Salt Awareness Week and new resources related to sodium reduction and healthful food procurement.

·March 10 - 16 is World Salt Awareness Week. Check back to www.cdc.gov/salt and http://www.cdc.gov/globalhealth/index.html for information on global sodium reduction.

·“You’re in Store: The Use of Urine Biomarkers to Estimate Sodium Intake” translates the science behind using 24-hour and spot urine collections to estimate sodium intake and is now available here: http://www.cdc.gov/salt/pdfs/sodium_reduction_biomarkers.pdf.

·A new article, “Toward a Healthier City: Nutrition Standards for New York City Government”, describing the development and initial implementation of New York City Food Standards was published in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine. The article may be found here: http://www.ajpmonline.org/webfile/images/484/journals/amepre/AMEPRE_3962-with_embargo_stamp.pdf.