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CDC condemns packaged food firms for defying federal salt guidelines

April 3, 2015 By Stephanie James Leave a Comment

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The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has condemned the manufacturers of packaged food products for intentionally and dangerously ignoring the long-standing guidelines for salt content.

A new CDC report has showed that a highly concerning proportion of packaged foods are overstepping the federal guidelines due to the presence of inadvisably high salt concentrations. Moreover, this is not always brought to the attention of the buyer with desired importance.

The consumption of high concentration of salt is responsible for causing high blood pressure and other health issues. Hence, the public health authorities have been making rigorous efforts for decades to reduce salt use by the manufacturers of food products.

The CDC study confirmed that there were excessive salt levels present during the manufacturing of packaged foods across all participating regions of the country.

According to the study, the items that were the worst-offenders were the packaged products that contained pasta and meat. The study found that 80 percent of such instances overstepped the federal guidelines for salt intake. Pizzas also contained too much salt in 70 percent of cases. On the other hand, more than half of all soups and cold cuts were loaded with unhealthy salt levels.

“Americans consume an average of 3,500 milligrams (mg) of sodium each day (excluding salt added at the table). But the Dietary Guidelines for Americans, 2010, recommend limiting sodium to less than 2,300 mg a day. About six in 10 adults should further limit sodium to 1,500 mg a day,” said the official report of the federal health body.

The CDC study’s findings showed that up to 77 percent of the salt consumed by the average Americans comes from take-out food, restaurant meals and packaged products in comparison to the meals cooked at home.

 

Filed Under: Lifestyle Tagged With: CDC, CDC salt guidelines, Salt, salt in packaged foods, salt in processed foods, salt intake, US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

CDC cautions against drug resistant Shigellosis outbreak

April 3, 2015 By Doyle Buehler Leave a Comment

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A drug-resistant stomach disease, known as shigellosis, has witnessed an uptick in the number of cases reported last year, according to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

A CDC study, which was released on Thursday, showed 243 people were tested positive for multi-drug resistant shigella sonnei bacteria across 32 states and Puerto Rico from May 2014 to February 2015.

The experts said all the reported cases of last year were resistant to the antibiotic ciprofloxacin, a traditional medication for the stomach infection which is often prescribed to the people in the US who are traveling abroad and develop diarrhea.

Not only ciprofloxacin, Shigellosis has been proven resistant to several other antibiotics, such as trimethoprim/sulfamethoxazole and ampicillin.

Calling the treatment of drug-resistant infections tougher, CDC Director Tom Frieden said, “These outbreaks show a troubling trend in shigella infections in the US. As Shigella spreads so easily between people, the potential for more and even larger outbreaks is a real concern.”

“We’re moving quickly to implement a national strategy to curb antibiotic resistance because we can’t take for granted that we’ll always have the drugs we need to fight common infections,” Frieden said.

Clusters of the ailment were uncovered in California, Massachusetts and Pennsylvania. 90 percent of the cases were resistant to ciprofloxacin.

Nearly half of the cases identified by the CDC’s PulseNet labs were detected among people who had traveled to India and the Dominican Republic. A large uptick in cases was reported in San Francisco, especially among those people who were homeless or living in hotels with single-room occupancy.

The US reports an estimated 500,000 cases of shigellosis each year.

Some of the common symptoms of shigellosis include bloody or watery diarrhea, fever, abdominal pain and malaise.

 

Filed Under: Lifestyle Tagged With: CDC, ciprofloxacin, Shigellosis, stomach infection, US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

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