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		</div><p><a href="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/fresh-move-to-cut-salt-in-foods.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-full" title="The Government is urging firms to sign a new promise to cut salt and trans-fats in foods" src="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/min-fresh-move-to-cut-salt-in-foods.jpg" alt="The Government is urging firms to sign a new promise to cut salt and trans-fats in foods"/></a></p>
<p>The Government is urging firms including PepsiCo, McDonald&#8217;s, Mars and Pizza Hut to sign a new promise to cut salt and trans-fats in foods.</p>
<p>Health Secretary Andrew Lansley has written to all members of the Food Network asking for a written commitment to put calories on menus, ban harmful trans-fats and cut salt.</p>
<p>The scheme is voluntary after the Government made it clear it wants to avoid regulating food companies.</p>
<p>Under the plan, restaurants, fast food outlets, take-aways, cafes, pubs, sandwich shops and staff canteens would sign up to put calorie labels on their menus from this September.</p>
<p>While many companies include nutritional information on their websites, government officials do not believe this goes far enough. Firms would also cut salt in a wide range of foods to achieve &#8220;specific, stretching targets by 2012&#8221;.</p>
<p>The aim is to cut the average salt intake for an adult to 6g a day &#8211; from the current average of 8.6g. For example, by 2012, 100g of sausages would have 1.13g of salt, 100g of tomato ketchup would have 1.83g of salt and 100g of pasta sauce (excluding pesto) would have 0.83g of salt. A 100g slice of pizza would have 1g of salt on average.</p>
<p>According to Food Standards Agency (FSA) calculations, cutting salt intake to 6g a day could prevent an average of 20,200 premature deaths a year.</p>
<p>According to the Government scheme, businesses would &#8220;once and for all&#8221; remove artificial trans-fats from their products by the end of this year. Officials believe this would be at a faster pace and at less cost to the taxpayer than if legislation was brought in.</p>
<p>Firms are already in discussions about a new &#8220;responsibility deal&#8221; on the content of foods as well as how they are packaged and labelled.</p>
<p>The Food Network is backed by Mr Lansley and includes representatives for major food companies, the Department of Health and charities. Members include Subway, Diabetes UK, The Co-operative, Sainsbury&#8217;s, Marks and Spencer, United Biscuits, Morrisons, Pizza Hut, Tesco, Mars, the Association of Convenience Stores, National Heart Forum, Kellogg&#8217;s, Waitrose, the Food and Drink Federation, McDonald&#8217;s, Asda, Unilever, PepsiCo, the Associated British Foods, Cancer Research UK and Which?</p>
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