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The strategy, as it was published, recommended the reduction of sodium intake for Canadians and has set a milestone for that reduction. It is an ambitious milestone to get Canadians' intake of sodium to less than 2,300 milligrams per day by 2016. The strategy essentially made recommendations on a number of initiatives to get us there.
One of the recommendations that is under federal oversight is to support our food supply in moving toward sodium reduction--essentially enabling the availability of products with lower sodium levels. Health Canada has invested a lot of effort in doing that by developing very aggressive targets for the reduction of sodium that will have to be achieved for the food supply.
While we are taking on that objective, we have to be very cognizant of the role of sodium in processed foods. We have to make sure we do not compromise food safety in the context of sodium reduction. But we still must make sure we achieve that objective.
One of the milestones I'm happy to report to the committee is that Health Canada published the proposed sodium reduction targets on January 7 for another period of consultation with industry, with the hope that these final targets will be considered as the 2011 targets in March 2011. So there is quite a bit of work under way in that regard.