Ji'nan shopping malls and supermarkets will set up special counters for low salt foods.
Xinhua net, Ji'nan, Ji'nan, December (reporter Qian Rong) Ji'nan municipal government recently issued the "salt reduction and control hypertension project implementation plan", to establish the city for a period of 4 years of salt reduction and control hypertension project, by 2015, the city residents per capita The daily intake of salt is reduced to less than 10 grams, and supermarkets, supermarkets and other food enterprises are required to set up low salt food counters to facilitate residents' identification.
hypertension is a major public health problem around the world. Excessive salt (sodium) intake is one of the important causes of rising blood pressure and hypertension in the population, and hypertension is an independent risk factor for the onset of cerebral stroke and coronary heart disease. As a pilot project of salt reduction and control hypertension project in Shandong Province, Ji'nan Huaiyin District showed that the prevalence rate of high blood pressure in adults aged 18 to 69 years old was 27.25%, and the standard human daily salt intake was 13.2 grams, higher than the national average 1.3 grams, which was 2.1 times the recommended quantity of Chinese residents' dietary guidelines (6 grams).
to establish a low salt diet environment, reduce the per capita salt intake of residents, put forward the implementation plan, will encourage food production and processing enterprises to increase the development and production of low salt food, promote and promote salt related food packaging label label salt content, salt content classification mark and low salt diet health hints and so on; support food. The production and processing enterprises carry out technological transformation and scientific research and development, improve the production process, reduce and control the use of salt rationally, strengthen the management of the food industry and the supervision of the food circulation link, implement the related measures of salt reduction, and set up the low salt food counter in the food sales enterprises such as the shopping malls and supermarkets, and identify and purchase low salt for the residents. To provide convenience for food, to guide all kinds of catering units to take measures to reduce salt, to actively develop low salt, low fat, healthy dishes, to develop healthy restaurants and canteens, to promote the production and popularization of standardized salt control appliances and to provide a support for the measurement and control of the use of salt for the catering units and residents. Hold.