The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is picking a food fight with an effort to reduce the amount of salt in the American diet.
The agency says a typical American eats about 3,400 milligrams of sodium each day, most of which is already in the food before it is purchased at a store or restaurant, giving consumers little control over the salt they consume.
The FDA wants to change that and is drafting voluntary guidelines that encourage food manufacturers to limit the sodium content in all of their products.
