December

• Channel News Asia: Pre-packaged drinks must have new nutrition labels by end-2022, reflecting sugar and fat levels (30th December)
• Nutrition and Health Sage Journal: Availability, healthiness, and price of packaged and unpackaged foods in India: A cross-sectional study (21st December)
•  Food Navigator: Are health claims a turn-off for consumers? 'Many manufacturers don't use health claims because they are not effective' (13th December)
• The World Bank: Taxes to Tackle Obesity in Tonga (9th December)
• Jama Network: Factors Associated With the Use of a Salt Substitute in Rural China (8th December)
• European Public Health Alliance: What next for European action on childhood obesity? Key reflections from an expert debate (8th December)
• FoodNavigator: Allulose approval in Europe to be sought by new ingredients consortium (7th December)
• The Guardian Nigeria: Economists demand prohibitive tax on sweetened beverages (7th December)
• Beverage Daily: Sugar tax impact is ‘sustainable and effective’, say US researchers (7th December)
• MedScape:  The US Can Learn From the World's Salt Problem (WASSH comment) (6th December)

November

• Food Navigator Asia: ‘No hidden messages’: Taiwan seeks to tighten nutritional labelling regulations for all packaged foods (25th November)
• Action on Salt release: Excessive Salt Levels Found in So-Called Healthy Plant-Based Meat (25th November)
• Beverage Daily: Not so sweet situation: More than half of packaged beverages sold in Singapore contain high levels of sugar (18th November)
• Beverage Daily: Anti-smoking style warnings on kids’ sugar-sweetened fruit drinks reduce purchases: study (18th November)
• NewFood Magazine: Language matters when it comes to health claims (16th November)
• WASSH Release: New Study Clearly Demonstrates That Reducing Salt Intake Reduces the Number of People Suffering & Dying from Strokes & Heart Disease (15th November)
• NewFood Magazine: Do sugary drink taxes work in the US? (15th November)
• Food Navigator: EFSA examines the science behind nutrient profiling (15th November)
• Spanish News Today: Traffic light food product labelling causes controversy in Spain (15th November)
• CBC: Which coffee chain drink has as much sugar as 2 cups of ice cream? (AoS comment) (12th November)
• Food Navigator: European consumers often are failing to understand on-food health claims, project reveals (10th November)
• PAHO: Sugar Awareness week: “Sweet or Sour? Sweet drinks conceal a sour truth” (9th November)
• Restaurant Business: CHILDREN’S MENUS NOW MUST MEET STRICTER REQUIREMENTS FOR NATIONAL RESTAURANT ASSOCIATION CERTIFICATION (3rd November)
• RTE: Call for stricter legislation on sale of sweets (2nd November)
• CBC: Alcoholic beverages need labels with calorie counts, Manitoba group says (1st November)
  

October

• Code List: The daily consumption of salt in America exceeds up to three times that recommended to prevent diseases (30th October)
• PAHO: PAHO recommends new targets to reduce salt consumption and help prevent cardiovascular disease (28th October)
• Food Navigator Asia: Encouraging reformulation: South Korea tightens food labelling standards for products with reduced sodium and sugar (27th October)
• Plos Medicine: The estimated health impact of sodium reduction through food reformulation in Australia: A modeling study (26th October)
• Food Ingredients 1st: FDA sodium targets: Industry flags challenges and opportunities around taste and shelf life (25th October)
• BMJ Open: Cross-sectional comparisons of sodium content in processed meat and fish products among five countries: potential for feasible targets and reformulation (19th October)
• Beverage Daily: ‘Significant reduction’ in consumer calories from beverages in the US (14th October)
• WASSH Comment: The U.S. Food and Drug Administration Releases Short-term Salt Reduction Targets (13th October)
• Action on Salt and Action on Sugar release: New Systematic Review and Meta-analysis Supports Call for Mandatory Front-of-Pack Labelling to Improve Diets (6th October)

September

• The University of Melbourne: Obesity worsens Covid-19. It’s time for Indonesia to get serious about tackling it (15th September)
• Nutrients Journal: Core Strategies to Increase the Uptake and Use of Potassium-Enriched Low-Sodium Salt (15th September)
• Express Healthcare: Leaders from top medical institutes urge immediate action on FOPL to address India’s NCD crisis (14th September)
• Department of Health: UK to Spearhead Europe-Wide Initiative to Reduce Sugar and Calorie Intake in Food (13th September)
• Blueprint: ‘Diabetes, obesity responsible for 29% deaths in Nigeria’ (11th September)
• PLOS Medicine: Altering product placement to create a healthier layout in supermarkets: Outcomes on store sales, customer purchasing, and diet in a prospective matched controlled cluster study (7th September)
• Medscape: Will the Positive Findings From the SSaSS Trial on Salt Substitution Silence the Salt Skeptics? (2nd September)
• University of California: Sucrose and high fructose corn syrup both linked to increased health risk (2nd September)
• PLOS Medicine: Corporate political activity in the context of unhealthy food advertising restrictions across Transport for London: A qualitative case study (2nd September)
• The Japan News: Industry, academia, govt work together to promote low sodium diet in Japan (2nd September)
• Food Buisiness News: Reducing sugar could prevent nearly 500,000 deaths, according to study (1st September)

August

• FoodNavigator: Swapping out table salt for a reduced sodium added potassium alternative would ‘save millions of lives’, finds research (WASSH comment) (31st August)
• New England Journal of Medicine: New landmark study finds potassium-based salt substitute significantly reduces risk of stroke and death compared to regular salt (30th August)
• The Financial: Reducing Sugar in Packaged Foods can Prevent Disease in Millions (28th August)
• Massachusetts General Hospital: Reducing sugar in packaged foods can prevent disease in millions (27th August)
• Current Nutrition Reports and European Heart Journal: Blood pressure experts put salt ‘controversy’ to bed (17th August)
• Public Health Nutrition Journal: Implementing effective salt reduction programs and policies in low- and middle-income countries: learning from retrospective policy analysis in Argentina, Mongolia, South Africa and Vietnam (13th August)
• FoodNavigator USA: Sugary drink consumption remains stubbornly high among Black & Hispanic students and those in “high exposure zones,” research suggests (13th August)
• The Times of India: Experts stress the need for consumer-friendly warning labels on packaged food (12th August)
• The Guardian: ‘Barely more than a pile of sugar’: Australian consumer group finds toddlers’ snacks lacking (11th August)
• FoodNavigator USA: Study: Ultra-processed foods make up majority of children's diets (11th August)
• BBC News: The labels encouraging Chileans to buy healthier food (11th August)
• Florida News Times: Sugar drink consumption plummets in Chile after new food law (10th August)
• FoodNavigator: Ultra-processed food faces call for policy clampdown: ‘People need to understand these products are harmful’ (9th August)
• FoodNavigator: Health claims in a developing country context: ‘Food labels are not a silver bullet to solve the NCD challenge’ (3rd August)
• Punchng: ‘Only healthy lifestyle can curb non-communicable diseases’ (1st August)

July 

• International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health: Barriers, Enablers, and Perceptions on Dietary Salt Reduction in the Out-of-Home Sectors: A Scoping Review (30th July)
• Food Navigator Asia: ‘Balancing nutrition and enjoyment’: Nestle Indonesia highlights fortification and reformulation efforts after ‘unhealthy’ food scandal (27th July)
• BMJ Open: Developing a policy to reduce the salt content of food consumed outside the home in Malaysia: protocol of a qualitative study (23rd July)
• Food Navigator: ‘Intake of added and free sugars should be as low as possible’: EFSA confirms sugar consumption a risk factor in chronic diseases (22nd July)
• BMC Health Research Policy and Systems: An evaluation of the Victorian Salt Reduction Partnership’s advocacy strategy for policy change (15th July)
• The Saxon: Argentina debates a food labeling law to combat childhood obesity (14th July)
• JMIR Publications: Availability, Formulation, Labeling, and Price of Low-sodium Salt Worldwide: Environmental Scan (14th July)
• Centre for Science in the Public Interest: Most Chain Restaurant Soda Fountain Drinks Exceed Day’s Worth of Added Sugars, Report Finds (8th July)
• BMJ Nutrition Prevention & Health: Effect of reducing ultraprocessed food consumption on obesity among US children and adolescents aged 7–18 years: evidence from a simulation model (7th July)
• Devdiscourse: Doctors call for front-of-pack labelling on packaged foods to reduce heart disease, stroke in India (8th July)
• Public Health Nutrition: Strengthening Knowledge to Practice on Effective Salt Reduction Interventions in Low- and Middle-Income Countries (5th July)
• FoodNavigator: PepsiCo talks health and reformulation across drinks and snacks: ‘The key is to get a product that consumers choose because it tastes great’ (2nd July)
• Access to Nutrition Initiative: Global Access to Nutrition Index 2021 calls for food industry to urgerntly address nutrition gap in the COVID-19 era (1st July) 

June

• Australian Government, Department of Health: Partnership Reformulation Program resource collection (24th June)
• Food Navigator USA: Study reveals ‘major limitations’ to fast-food industry self-regulation of advertising to children (22nd June)
• Yahoo News: Temptation everywhere: Mexican children struggle with obesity (16th June)
• BBC Sport: Paul Pogba: France star removes beer bottle from Euro 2020 news conference (16th June)
• Health World: Scientific community sounds alarm over dangerous levels of sugar, salt and fats in packaged food (15th June)
• The Nation: Australia’s peak medical body calls for sugar tax to combat obesity, diabetes (10th June)
• Croakey Health Media: The UK is banning online junk food marketing: what’s stopping Australia? (8th June)
• Wiley Online: Progress in the Pacific on sugar-sweetened beverage taxes: a systematic review of policy changes from 2000 to 2019 (7th June)
• Urdu Point: PANAH Proposes Govt To Introduce 20 Percent Tax On SSBs Causing Serious Diseases (6th June)

May

• The Times of India: Experts call for urgent policy intervention to fix scientific limits for salt, sugar, saturated fats in packaged food (28th May)
• The International News: Diabetes body urges Pakistan to raise taxes on sugar beverages (26th May)
• The BMJ: Tackling childhood obesity in the wake of covid-19: lessons from Chile (25th May)
• Dutch News: Dutch eat ‘pinch of salt’ less six years after deal with food industry (20th May)
• Food Buisiness News: Meeting new WHO sodium benchmarks could involve potassium salt (20th May)
• Food Navigator: Kellogg cuts sugar and salt across Europe and UK: ‘The process is trial and error’ (17th May)
• Food Navigator Asia: Salt reduction findings: Reducing daily intake by four grammes most effective in reducing CVD risks: 30-year modelling study (17th May)
• Food Navigator: Does Nutri-Score encourage healthier food choices in Morocco? (17th May)
• The Fiji Times: Fiji’s present salt intake twice more than WHO recommendation – Study (14th May)
• Daily Sabah: 3M people die due to excessive salt consumption every year: WHO (12th May)
• The Washington Post: WHO updates guidelines on sodium, says health authorities need to work to reduce salt intake (11th May)
• PAHO: Consumption of sugary drinks could decline substantially if they were properly taxed, PAHO study shows (10th May)
• The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition: Potassium-enriched salt substitutes: benefits, risks, and a “trolley problem” in public health (8th May)
• Food Navigator: Tesco urged to consider health impact as it extends plant-based target into Central Europe (5th May)
• WASSH Comment: World Health Organization release new Global Sodium Benchmarks (5th May)

April

• Food Manufacture: Re:formulate: Action on Salt on food industry salt reduction (30th April)
• Food and Drink Business: Aussies consume 32 teaspoons less sugar per person, per year from non-alcoholic drinks (28th April)
• KYUK: Sugary Beverage Tax Up For Public Hearing Again In Bethel City Council Meeting (27th April)
• MSN News: Tax on sugary drinks slow to gain traction in Africa (23rd April)
• Bangkok Post: Snacking towards bad health (20th April)
• Circulation Journal: Sodium, Blood Pressure, and the Likely Massive Avoidable Burden of Cardiovascular Disease (19th April)
• Karger: Taxes to Unhealthy Food and Beverages and Oral Health in Mexico: An Observational Study (14th April)
• Food Navigator: South Africa sugar tax data ‘clearly shows positive changes’, says study (14th April)
• Food Navigator: Germany tightens rules on marketing food to children: ‘Advertising must not induce children to eat unhealthily’ (13th April)
• Food Navigator: Eco-Score’s European expansion: Lidl and Colruyt adopt environmental footprint labelling (9th April)
• Ministry of Health Australia: Engaging with food industry to lower salt, sugar and saturated fat content (9th April)
• Barbados Today: ‘Fight for nutrition warnings with pandemic urgency’ (8th April)
• Dutch News: Public health body calls for action on unhealthy eating, and related social problems (7th April)

March

• Food Navigator Asia: Sugary drink labelling: Singapore beverage industry calls for more holistic approach as government opens Nutri-Grade consultations (31st March)
• Dutch News: Next government must cut salt, sugar and fat in food, consumer group says (30th March)
• NewFood Magazine: Kicking the salt addiction (25th March)
• Nutrients Journal: Use of Salt-Restriction Spoons and Its Associations with Urinary Sodium and Potassium in the Zhejiang Province of China: Results of a Population-Based Survey (24th March)
• Gulf News: Red, amber and green: UAE’s new ‘traffic light system’ to label food is here (14th March)
• Express Healthcare: India urgently needs a national salt reduction strategy – Study (13th March)
• Kuensel Online: High salt consumption among Bhutanese worrying: Experts (12th March)
• Food & Drink International: Researchers call for restrictions on ‘misleading’ nutrition claims on seemingly healthy snacks (12th March)
• Jamaica Observer: Regional health agency urges lower salt intake to combat heart disease (11th March)
• Mirage News: UK sugar tax hits sweet spot, so why is Australia waiting? (11th March)
• IOL: Salt Awareness Week: SA’s saltiest foods revealed (11th March)
• PAHO: Octagonal warning labels perform best in helping consumers choose healthier food, major study in Jamaica shows (9th March)
• The Scoop: Brunei to ban junk food ads aimed at children (9th March)
• The Tico Times: Costa Rican diet contains too much salt, Health Ministry says (9th March)
• The New Daily: Australians still failing to keep this silent killer out of their diets (8th March)
• European Food Agency News: World Week Reduction in Food Consumption of Salt (8th March)
• Advances in Nutrition Journal: A Systematic Review of Salt Reduction Initiatives Around the World: A Midterm Evaluation of Progress Towards the 2025 Global Non-Communicable Diseases Salt Reduction Target (7th March)
• WASSH Comment: Should the government be paying us to be healthy? (5th March)
• Journal of Human Hypertension: The impact of baseline potassium intake on the dose–response relation between sodium reduction and blood pressure change: systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized trials (5th March)
• Probono Austrailia: 'Shake it off': Aussies urged to cut down their salt consumption for better heart health (4th March)
• GMA Network: Less salt is key to a healthy meal (3rd March)

February

• Science Daily: Abnormal sodium levels in hospitalized patients with COVID-19 predict death or respiratory failure (25th February)
• Food Navigator USA: FDA ‘working diligently on final guidance for industry with voluntary short-term targets for sodium’ (24th February)
• Remezcla: Cartoon Mascots Banned from Food Packaging in Mexico to Combat Childhood Obesity (23rd February)
• Food Navigator Asia: Salt reformulation in Australia: Bread, cheese and processed meat identified as key targets for reduction (22nd February)
• Times Live SA: Stunting and sugary snacks part of a deadly food crisis, say child experts (18th February)
• Mail & Guardian: Health experts call for a 20% hike in sugar tax (16th February)
• Circulation, AHA: Blood Pressure Effects of Sodium Reduction: Dose-Response Meta-Analysis of Experimental Studies (15th February)
• Food Navigator: 7 European countries team up to propel Nutri-Score rollout (12th February)
• Food Navigator Asia: Food labelling simulation tool: South Korea develops bot to help firms navigate local requirements (8th February)
• The Daily Star: New salt bill is a real commitment to human development (7th February)
• Food Processing: Government salt reduction scheme not enough, study shows (4th February)
• Daily Mirror Online: An appetite for health: Regulating Sri Lanka’s food environments to fight NCDs (3rd February)
• Packaging Digest: Could Mexico’s New Warning Labels Trigger Labeling Laws Elsewhere? (2nd February)

January

• WASSH Comment: Americans can’t cut back on salt. One likely reason: Packaged and prepared foods are filled with it. (31st January)
• Food Navigator: Scientists rally behind Nutri-Score in response to scepticism in Spain: ‘These attacks are based on personal opinion, not science’ (29th January)
• International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health: Household Cooking and Eating out: Food Practices and Perceptions of Salt/Sodium Consumption in Costa Rica (29th January)
• Food Navigator Asia: Clearer calorie calculations: Japan updates nutrition labelling rules to reflect carbohydrate quality in processed foods (26th January)
• Imperial College London: Levels of obesity could rise if effective actions are not taken in childhood (22nd January)
• Plos One: Understanding the dynamics of obesity prevention policy decision-making using a systems perspective: A case study of Healthy Together Victoria (22nd January)
• Food Processing: Changes to food allergen labelling likely for mid-Feb (18th January)
• BMJ Nutrition Prevention & Health: Estimating the potential impact of Australia’s reformulation programme on households’ sodium purchases (12th January)
• Plos One: Impact of salt intake reduction on CVD mortality in Costa Rica: A scenario modelling study (12th January)
• World Health Organization: WHO urges governments to promote healthy food in public facilities (12th January)
• Bakery and Snacks: First Nutri-Score for nutrition, now Eco-Score for the environment: New FOP lands in France (12th January)
• Food Navigator Asia: Thailand salt tax: Firms failing to reformulate risk increased costs as 2021 implementation expected (12th January)
• Food Navigator: Are nutrition labelling schemes a marketing ploy? ‘FOPs no longer inform, but influence’ (8th January)
• Bakery and Snacks: Make Australian Healthy Star Rating mandatory to maximise reformulation - Study (6th January)