World Salt Awareness Week (February 2nd - 8th 2009)
Welcome to World Salt Awareness Week.
World Action on Salt and Health (WASH) held its 2nd annual World Salt Awareness Week (February 2nd - 8th 2009), focusing on salt eaten outside the home. We raised awareness that foods in restaurants, takeaways, fast foods, street food, hawker markets, canteen food etc can contain a lot of hidden salt.
We aimed to highlight to the catering industry and to chefs and others involved, the iimportance of adding less salt to food and the long-term health implications of eating a high salt diet. We also wanted to publicise to consumers that they must also take action in choosing lower salt foods and asking for much less salt to be added to their meals.
To provide feedback on World Salt Awareness Activities in your country, please fill out this online questionnaire
Click here for World Salt Awareness Week Review 2009 Survey
Participants
We had 28 confirmed countries participating: Australia, Bangladesh, Botswana, Bulgaria, Canada, Caribbean, Chile, Croatia, Cuba, Dubai, Egypt, Finland, Georgia, India, Italy, Kenya, Lithuania, Malta, Netherlands, Nigeria, Pakistan, Poland, Portugal, Slovakia, Sweden, Turkey, UK and the USA.
WASH collaborated with World Hypertension Day
