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Group sues FDA in bid to cut salt intake

WASHINGTON, Feb. 25 (UPI) -- The Center for Science in the Public Interest, worried about U.S. salt consumption, is suing regulators to force them to classify salt as a food additive.

The center said Friday that too much salt in the diet is boosting U.S. residents' blood pressure and is prematurely killing roughly 150,000 people each year.

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To cut the approximately 4,000 milligrams per person of salt consumed in the United States each day, the center is suing the Food and Drug Administration to compel it to reclassify salt as a food additive.

Currently, the FDA classifies salt as GRAS, or generally recognized as safe, which means that it is not closely regulated.

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