Kellogg Australia announced today (Tuesday 12 June 2012) that the company has reduced the salt levels in its Corn Flakes and Rice Bubbles cereal products by 20%, fulfilling its 2010 commitment. On 22 March 2010, the Reformulation Working Group of the Federal Government’s Food and Health Dialogue secured the agreement of leading manufacturers and retailers to salt-level reduction targets across a variety of bread and breakfast cereals. For ready‐to‐eat breakfast cereals that exceed 400 milligrams... ...Read more »

Australia’s leading pie manufacturers are the latest to have “voluntarily” agreed to reduce salt levels in thier products over the next two years as part of the Australian Government’s Food and Health Dialogue. The Food and Health Dialogue, which comprises leading manufacturers and retailers as well as the Australian Government, met in Canberra on 23 March 2012 to discuss plans to reduce salt content in their food products. Savoury Pies Impacted The Dialogue is currently engaging the savoury... ...Read more »

Parliamentary Secretary for Health and Ageing, Catherine King, announced today that Australia’s leading food manufacturers and retailers have voluntarily agreed to reduce salt levels in soup products over the next three years. The agreement between the Australian Government’s Food and Health Dialogue and leading manufacturers and retailers was reached in Canberra this morning. Leading manufacturers Unilever, Heinz, Campbell Arnotts and Nestle, along with major retailers Woolworths, Coles and... ...Read more »

The George Institute for Global Health has called on the Government to take tougher action on reformulating products to reduce salt, in an effort to reduce hypertension (or high blood pressure) – a condition caused mostly by salt, which kills large numbers of Australians each year through strokes, heart attacks and heart failure. The UK, US and Canada are far ahead of Australia in salt reduction, having set targets for 80 food categories, compared to Australia’s 9. The UK has already... ...Read more »

The Australian Government Parliamentary Secretary for Health and Ageing, Catherine King, today chaired the sixth meeting of the Food and Health Dialogue. The Dialogue brings together government, industry and public health groups with the aim of addressing poor dietary habits and making healthier food choices easier and more accessible for all Australians. The Dialogue is undertaking, as its primary activity, action on food innovation. This includes a voluntary reformulation program to reduce risk-associated... ...Read more »

The Federal Government’s Food and Health Dialogue, which will provide a ‘framework for government, health groups and industry to work collaboratively across the food supply chain to improve dietary intakes’, was formally announced this week by the Parliamentary Secretary for Health, Mark Butler. Chaired by Mr Butler, the Dialogue is part of a broader strategy to increase consumption of fruits, vegetables and whole grain foods; reduce the consumption of risk-associated nutrients,... ...Read more »