date:Sep 20, 2023
than 9,000 lives annually.
However, the researchers state that since the government transferred control of the program from the Food Standards Agency to the Department of Health in 2010 and what the study states was a resultant loosening of restrictions by 2014 salt intake began to increase again, coincided with an increase of deaths due to ischaemic heart disease (IHD) and stroke.
Moreover, AoS and the study stress that in 2014, the responsibility for salt policy was transferred to the food