New York City's Crusade Against Sodium ("...the science behind the regulation is inconclusive.")

New York City's Crusade Against Sodium

Starting next week, the city will require chain restaurants to place salt-shaker warnings on menus beside items with 2,300 milligrams of sodium or more.

But perhaps worse yet, the science behind the regulation is inconclusive. A week before the judge’s ruling, the National Restaurant Association received some good news in the form of a paper by two influential Columbia University professors and one former board member of the New York City Department of Health. The study, a meta-analysis of more than three decades of sodium studies, concluded no scientific consensus has coalesced around the hypothesis that lowering one’s salt intake had “population benefits.”