Saudi Arabia Among Leading Countries with Low Salt Consumption
The Saudi Food and Drug Authority (SFDA) announced that Saudi Arabia entered the list of the leading countries in the world in terms of the lowest consumption of salt, according to a report released by the World Health Organization (WHO).
Saudi Arabia has also emerged as the top country in the Arab world and in the region in enacting legislation and procedures to reduce excessive consumption of salt with the aim of improving the nutritional value of food products and enhancing nutrition patterns in society to maintain the health of both citizens and expatriates.
The SFDA has worked in recent years to urge food manufacturers and importers to reduce the salt content of 24 food items by enacting maximum guiding limits for salt in food products.
It also imposed a number of measures on food manufacturers and importers, the most important of which is setting a mandatory limit for the salt content in all types of bread, with the ratio of one gram per 100 grams of bread. It has also set a mandatory limit for the amount of salt in infant and child food, as well as in milk drinks so that it does not exceed one gram per 100 millilitres.
