CITIZEN PETITION Re: Citizen Petition Requesting that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration Finalize its 10- Year Sodium Reduction Goals and Take Other Actions to Reduce Sodium Consumption

In 2005, CSPI re-petitioned the FDA to take action to reduce sodi- um.6 In 2010, the Institute of Medicine recommended that “The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) should expeditiously initiate a process to set mandatory national standards for the sodium content of foods.”8 In 2015, CSPI sued FDA for not acting on that 2005 petition.9 In 2016, in re- sponse to the lawsuit, FDA proposed voluntary 2. [...] The second study29 modeled the impact of the FDA guidelines on people working in the food system and the processed food industry itself. [...] Notably, Congress has supported the establishment of intermediate and long-term goals, noting in the report associated with the FY2023 omnibus spending bill that “the [House Appropriations] Committee encourages FDA to coordinate with other government agencies, such as USDA and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on these monitoring efforts and instructs the FDA to set a timeline for the. [...] The 60% cutoff is intended to allow the Agency and the public to identify the worst offenders in the most important food cate- gories. [...] Petition to revoke the GRAS status of salt, to set ceilings on the amount of sodium in processed foods, to require a health warning on packaged salt, and to reduce the daily value for sodium.