Related Information

General

• Dietary Reference Intakes
• Eating Well with Canada's Food Guide
• Healthy Canadians: Sodium
• It's Your Health: Sodium
• Nutrition and Health Claims:
  • Health Canada Scientific Summary on the U. S. Health Claim for Sodium and Hypertension
• Nutrition Labelling
•  Public Health Agency of Canada- Minimizing the Risks of Cardiovascular Disease
• Sodium: Archived Documents

Food Industry

• Guidance for the Food Industry on Reducing Sodium in Processed Foods
•  Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada: Sodium:
  •  Not-for-Profit Food Processing Facilities Offering Food Product Development Expertise for the Reduction of Sodium and/or Trans Fat
•  CFIA Food Labelling Decisions: salt
• Food additives permitted for use in Canada
•  Food and Drug Regulations
• Lab- Analysis- A Rapid Method for the Determination of Sodium and Potassium
•  Meat Hygiene Manual of Procedures
  •  Use of Phosphate Salts and Nitrites in the Preparation of Meat Products
•  The Canadian Food Inspection Agency's Guide to Food Labelling and Advertising:
  • 6.6  The elements within the nutrition facts table- sodium
  • 7.21  Sodium (salt) claims
  • 8.4  Disease Risk Reduction Claims
  • 14.4  Meat products and poultry meat products that contain phosphate salts and/or water

Contact us: sodium@hc-sc.gc.ca