Report of a series of expert meetings on developing WHO global sodium benchmarks, November 2020 - April 2021

Book excerpt: In order to help drive progress towards the global target to reduce mean population sodium intake by 30% by 2025 for the prevention and control of NCDs, the World Health Organization (WHO) set global benchmarks for sodium levels in foods across different food categories, building on country experience of salt reduction. This is a report of a series of expert meetings, which WHO convened in November 2020, January 2021 and March 2021. The meetings were held virtually to review the results of the analyses of the existing country data on sodium targets; to assess priority food categories for which global sodium benchmarks should be developed; and to assess and finalize global sodium benchmarks for identified priority food categories.