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FDA contemplates
regulating salt
   WASHINGTON — Best known for deciding whether medications are safe and effective, the Food and Drug Administration is weighing whether to crack down on plain old salt, which doctors say is harmful in the quantities most Americans consume.
   At a hearing today, the agency will begin collecting expert testimony on the role excess salt in the diet contributes to high blood pressure, heart disease and strokes. An increasingly vocal medical community has joined consumer groups to demand government intervention, and the review could lead to federal limits on the salt content of processed foods such as canned soups and breakfast cereals.
   In a carefully calibrated response, the food industry has acknowledged the problem but called for voluntary solutions rather than government regulation.

And the FDA is somehow surprised by this???

So now they want to regulate it?  What are you going to have to do, sign a registry for buying more than 1 shaker of salt per year?  And what about the frozen food industry, who counts on this so much that if salt is regulated, they may have to become a new part of the black market?

The replacement of morality and conscience with law produces a deadly paradox.

Too much of high taxes and government control is making me sick...can they try to regulate that too? PLEASE?