Americans are consuming too much sodium, and to help them cut back, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration should establish mandatory federal standards to regulate the amount of salt that food manufacturers and foodservice operators can add to their products. That is the key message in “Strategies to Reduce Sodium Intake in the United States,” a report released last month by the Institute of Medicine (IOM) and available online at http://www.iom.edu.
Current average daily sodium intake is more than…