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The 'War On Salt' Is Bad Policy Based on Bad Science

By David Harsanyi
Friday, June 03 2016

The Center for Science in the Public Interest, one of the few openly authoritarian organizations functioning in the United States, once sued the Food and Drug Administration for refusing to regulate Americans' salt intake. No worries. This week, the Obama administration finally embraced CSPI's junk science and allowed the FDA to set new "guidelines" to "nudge" companies into treating a perfectly harmless ingredient as if it were a dangerous chemical. Health and Human Services Secretary Sylvia Mathews Burwell explained that pressuring private companies into lowering sodium levels…

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