I just wanted to make a contribution from a public health perspective on the cost and the burden of modifying products.
The burdens on industry must always be measured against the public health impact. This is the sole motivation for changing these foods—to reduce these 10,000 to 16,000 deaths a year. That's not inconsequential.
I would invite members of the committee to be at least as skeptical about what they hear from industry groups as what they hear from health groups. I will tell you that when I looked at the European platform for sodium reduction strategy, it sounded like big numbers—getting rid of 800 tonnes of salt over a certain period of time. But if you do the math, that works out to a 3,000- to 5,000-year trajectory for meeting public health goals.