NYC’s novel salt warning rule set to take effect at chains

Starting December 1, all chain restaurants with 15 or more locations nationwide will have to post a little salt shaker symbol next to menu items that contain more than 2,300 milligrams of sodium (about a teaspoon worth). New York City officials hope that the rule will spur other cities to adopt similar guidelines for restaurants. They will require restaurants to use their salt shaker warning sign in any of their food menu containing more than the daily sodium limit that most nutritionists suggest. Thats about a teaspoon. The restaurant chains will have 90 days to comply with the new rule before the possibility of receiving a fine.

Well, then, NRA, join the Center for Science in the Public Interest in calling for all local health departments to provide this critical, heart-healthy information to their citizens.

While some sodium is necessary, people can usually get enough salt from meat and other items in which sodium occurs naturally, Kramer explained.

Cardiovascular disease is the leading cause of death in New York City, claiming almost 17,000 lives in in 2013.

NY diners were bracing themselves on Tuesday to discover how much salt was in their favourite foods, as a new law came into effect ordering restaurants to display warnings. The average American consumes about 3,400 mg of salt per day, a number much higher that the recommended doses. The restaurant and beverage industries blocked Bloomberg’s bid to ban oversize sodas in 2014, when the state’s highest court ruled that the Board of Health lacked authority to impose the restriction.

“If you look at high salt conditions, blood vessels don’t dilate as well as they do under low sodium conditions”, Farquhar says. “I too have sinned, Rich. I have to say in my ancestral cuisine there’s a lot of salt”, de Blasio told Lamb. It led development of voluntary salt-reduction targets for various table staples and tried, unsuccessfully, to limit the size of some sugary drinks. It has also pointed out federal regulations, to take effect in late 2016, which obligate restaurant chains to list nutritional information on its menus, render the city’s efforts unnecessary.

“There are 77 million people in this country – that’s one in three adults – who have high blood pressure“, he says.

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