“With one in three Australians having high blood pressure, stronger government leadership to ensure packaged foods contain less salt could save thousands of lives each year as well as millions in healthcare costs,” said Dr Jason Wu, George Institute’s program head of Nutrition Science.
“At a minimum, the government should make the targets compulsory and end industry self-regulation.
“Our study suggests that prioritising the reformulation of supermarket private label products would be a good place to start.”