2022
December
- Action on Salt comment: Government confirms delay for restrictions on advertising of unhealthy food to 2025 (9th December)
November
- Action on Salt Comment: Department of Health and Social Care announces £20 million research boost to develop new obesity treatments and technology(28th November)
- Footprint: Foodservice urged to be more transparent on nutrition (17th November)
- Food Manufacture: Mandatory reporting of salt by manufacturers could be needed to 'improve transparency' (AoS comment) (2nd November)
- Bakery and Snacks: UK Bakery and Snack Producers have Stalled on Voluntary Progress in Reducing Salt Intakes: Study (1st November)
October
- The Express: Smoked salmon could increase your risk of high blood pressure - 'Limit' how much you eat (AoS comment) (26th October)
- The Mirror: Reduce cardiovascular risk significantly by reducing your salt intake (AoS comment) (26th October)
- The Mirage News: Food industry shows ‘stalled progress’ to reduce salt intakes, new Oxford-led analysis finds (AoS comment) (21st October)
- New Research: Industry-led salt reduction stalled, new Oxford-led analysis finds (19th October)
- North Wales Live: Liz Truss set to scrap junk food ban at Asda, Aldi, Tesco, Lidl, and Sainsbury's (AoS comment) (7th October)
- PLOS Medicine: Changes in the salt content of packaged foods sold in supermarkets between 2015–2020 in the United Kingdom: A repeated cross-sectional study (5th October)
- Sky News: Shops in England banned from displaying junk food near entrances and tills from today (1st October)
September
- Action on Salt Comment: Leading Charities & Health Organisations Raise Concern Over Review of UK Obesity Strategy (22nd September)
- The Express: High blood pressure: Fish ‘high in salt’ can cause dangerous hypertension increases (18th September)
- Action on Salt comment: UK government reviewing obesity strategy (15th September)
- The Daily Mail: Time for McDonald's to finally axe its Monopoly contest? Experts say game - offering prizes of up to £100,000 - is 'irresponsible' amid UK's obesity crisis (AoS comment) (12th September)
- Action on Salt Update: Katharine Jenner leaving post of Director (2nd September)
August
- The Express: Hypertension warning: Popular UK ingredient narrows blood vessels within '30 minutes' (AoS comment) (29th August)
- The Express: High blood pressure: 'Avoid' one common cooking ingredient - it can raise your levels (AoS comment) (26th August)
- Food Navigator: Nutri-Score blocks ‘health-halo’ effects caused by claims on sugar, but should such claims be allowed at all? (AoS comment) (18th August)
- New Research: Reducing daily salt intake in China by 1 g could prevent almost 9 million cardiovascular events by 2030: a modelling study (17th August)
- National World: Doctors slam Liz Truss plan to scrap ban on junk food ‘buy one get one free’ offers as childhood obesity soars (AoS comment) (4th August)
- Yahoo News: Should you eat more or less salt in the heat? An expert sets the record straight (AoS comment) (1st August)
July
- Action on Salt and ShareAction Release: Call for World’s Largest Food Companies to Prioritise Health after NEW Survey Exposes Bad Practice(28th July)
- Food Ingredients 1st: Researchers sound alarm over increased dieting trends and eating disorders across UK (21st July)
- Nutrition Insight: Alarmingly poor nutrition causing stunting across UK, Food Foundation report reveals (AoS comment) (20th July)
- The Express: High blood pressure warning: The 'hidden' ingredient that could be raising your reading (19th July)
- The Food Foundation: The Broken Plate Report (AoS Collaboration) (19th July)
- The Grocer: Kellogg’s court defeat: why do major producers refuse to reformulate? (18th July)
- Action on Salt Release: Restaurants Continue to Serve Huge Amounts of Salt in Children’s Meals, Putting their Long-term Health at Risk (14th July)
- Food Ingredients 1st: Public health efforts reducing sodium in diets are “warranted” after research links salt intake to premature death (AoS comment) (12th July)
- Action on Salt Comment: High Court rules against Kellogg’s – Public Health Win (4th July)
June
- Hampshire Chronicle: Steve Brine MP welcomes 'thoughtful' food strategy but questions lack of action on salt and sugar (25th June)
- British Baker: Price trumps taste in consumers’ healthier food choices (24th June)
- Daily Record: What salt really does to your body - from high blood pressure to stomach cancer (22nd June)
- Action on Salt Release: NEW Studies Suggest UK’s Salt Reduction Programme Could Help Reduce Health Inequality in Children – Government Must Act Now (22nd June)
- Daily Record: Charity calls for salt levy to in bid to reduce heart disease and stroke (22nd June)
- Food Ingredients 1st: Action on Salt continues battling UK government’s refusal to increase taxes on salt (AoS comment) (21st June)
- British Heart Foundation: New BHF report shows reducing daily salt intake could save lives and costs in coming years (21st June)
- British Baker: Why bakers should focus on health despite government delays (AoS comment) (17th June)
- Food Ingredients 1st: UK’s Food Strategy falls short and fails to address the real issues about food, say critics (AoS comment) (13th June)
- The Grocer: Health groups vent fury over ‘watered down’ National Food Strategy (13th June)
- GB News: Tory MP calls for new tax on sugar and salt as UK 'storing up obesity' (13th June)
- Baker Info: Campaign group denounces government policy on sugar and salt (AoS comment) (13th June)
- Confectionery Production: UK government to reject taxes on sugar and salt within key confectionery and snacks ranges (AoS comment) (11th June)
- Barnsley Chronicle: Strict restrictions on junk food adverts brought in (10th June)
- The Mail Plus: Why you might need blood pressure pills — even if you feel perfectly well (6th June)
- Glasgow Live: Glasgow obesity concerns as 140 new fast-food takeaways open up in city since 2015 (AoS comment) (4th June)
May
- Buckinghamshire Live: Takeaway business booms in Buckinghamshire during pandemic (AoS comment) (29th May)
- The Independent: Supermarkets push forward with curbs on unhealthy food despite Government delays (20th May)
- The Grocer: Industry is more than capable of adapting to HFSS laws – regardless of the objections (AoS comment) (19th May)
- The Independent: Supermarkets push forward with curbs on unhealthy food despite Government delays (20th May)
- The Grocer: Industry is more than capable of adapting to HFSS laws – regardless of the objections (AoS comment) (19th May)
- The Mail: Simon Fell says he was against ban on multi-buy deals for unhealthy foods 'from the outset' (AoS comment) (18th May)
- Food Manufacture: Government delays restrictions on HFSS promotions (AoS comment) (16th May)
- UK Government: Government delays restrictions on multibuy deals and advertising on TV and online (14th May)
- Action on Salt Comment: Government delays restrictions on multibuy deals and advertising on TV and online (14th May)
- Food Navigator: Tesco named UK’s ‘healthiest’ supermarket… but ‘performance across the board is poor’ (13th May)
- The Grocer: HFSS promotions ban in chaos after fresh reports of government u-turn (11th May)
April
- Action on Salt Release: Time to Mandate Salt Reduction Targets and Save Lives, Health Professionals and Charities Tell Government (27th April)
March
- Daily Mail: The great protein branding sham: How 'muscle-building' alternatives to cereals, energy bars and milk can have more fat, sugar AND salt than their originals (and only marginally more protein) (AoS comment) (28th March)
- The Daily Express: High blood pressure warning: Frozen pizza packs 'extraordinary amounts of sodium' - expert (AoS comment) (26th March)
- Convenience Store: KP Snacks to reformulate key brands ahead of HFSS (21st March)
- Food Manufacture: FSA to extend reach into health and sustainability (18th March)
- Food Navigator: The snack brands gearing up for the HFSS clampdown (18th March)
- The Daily Mail: How UK's VEGAN fast-food favourites are laden with fat and salt (and a cheeky Nando's racks up MORE calories than its chicken alternative): Plant-based burgers at KFC, sausage rolls at Greggs and Subway sandwiches are up to 30% saltier and 60% fattier (AoS comment) (17th March)
- Bakery Info: Half of businesses unready for new HFSS rules, says survey (15th March)
- The Grocer: Fifth of suppliers don’t know HFSS ban is coming, shows research (15th March)
- Action on Salt Release: Real Deal – Nearly Three Quarters of Snacks Included in Meal Deals Are Dangerously High in Fat, Salt, and Sugar – according to NEW Research (15th March)
- British Heart Foundation: We're all eating too much salt - here's why that matters (15th March)
- The Grocer: Tyrrells, Popchips and Hula Hoops Puft to get non-HFSS reformulation (14th March)
- Politics Home: Reducing excess salt in our food would be a much-needed triumph for UK public health (14th March)
- Bakery and Snacks: Attitudes towards salt intake still an issue, survey reveals (14th March)
February
- The Guardian: Campaigners urge PM to back new food bill and tackle UK obesity crisis (27th February)
- Telegraph: Reliance on individual behaviour change will fail to 'level up' health (23rd February)
- iNews: Boris Johnson to rule out sugar and salt tax in food strategy, despite key recommendation from food tsar (19th February)
- LSHTM: Transport for London’s junk food advertising restrictions linked to reductions in high fat, salt and sugar product purchases (18th February)
- Politics.co.uk: Health leaders’ warning to Prime Minister: Don’t U-turn on children’s health (16th February)
- The Sun: Hidden Nasties How the secret salt hiding in these so-called healthy meals make them as bad for you as JUNK food (24th February)
- The Telegraph: How 'hidden' salt in paracetamol could increase your risk of heart disease (24th February)
- WASSH Release: Delayed finalization of sodium targets in the United States may cost over 250,000 lives by 2031 (21st February)
- Current Nutrition Reports: Salt and Health: Old Myths and a Controversy Based on Denial (14th February)
- The BMJ: Can children play a role in reducing families’ salt intake? (14th February)
- WASSH Release: New research shows that children can play an important role in lowering families' salt intake (10th February)
- Food Navigator: Junk food marketing is ‘prevalent everywhere’ and promotes ‘unhealthy diets’ to children: WHO (7th February)
- Mail Online: 'Healthy' supermarket soups can contain up to SIX times more salt than a portion of McDonald's fries or ready salted crisps (AoS comment) (7th February)
- The Grocer: Junk food ad ban: Sajid Javid given powers to delay HFSS proposals (7th February)
- Grocery Gazette: Tesco to Bank Junk Food as it Prepared for HFSS Legislation (7th February)
- The Times: Sajid Javid promises to stick with ban on junk food ads (5th February)
- The Grocer: Tesco and Sainsbury’s trial healthier store layouts as HFSS rules loom (2nd February)
- UK Government: Government unveils levelling up plan that will transform UK (2nd February)
- Food Manufacture: Reformulation to help tackle heart disease and diabetes (2nd February)
- The Daily Express: 'Healthy' vegan ready meals that contain EIGHT times more salt than a packet of crisps (2nd February)
January
- Action on Salt Release: Early Evidence for the Effectiveness of South Africa’s Legislation on Salt Restriction in Foods: the African-PREDICT Study (31st January)
- Action on Salt Release: 1 in 4 Chilled Sliced Meats Sold in the UK are Saltier than Atlantic Seawater, according to NEW Data (24th January)
- Food Navigator: Can mandatory labelling drive food system change? (19th January)
- The Times: Could the new NHS Food Scanner app change my (unhealthy) eating habits? (13th January)
- UK Government: New campaign launched to help parents improve children's diet (10th January)
- The Express: High blood pressure: The 27p ingredient consumed by millions could be raising your levels (9th January)
- The Times: Vegan Junk Food Can Harm Your Health says Henry Dimbleby (8th January)