June 23, 2009
Written by: Morton Satin
Canada is currently in the midst of a national initiative aimed at reducing the sodium content of the diets of Canadians. It has appointed a Multi-stakeholder Working Group on Dietary Sodium Reduction (Sodium Working Group) to oversee this process....
April 13, 2009
Written by: Morton Satin
Mort Satin, Director of Technical and Regulatory Affairs at the Salt Institute addressed the Institute of Medicine's Committee on Strategies to Reduce Sodium on March 30 at their 2nd Information-Gathering Workshop. He cautioned the Committee to use great caution and to read...
March 13, 2009
Written by: Morton Satin
Newspapers and websites around the country are reporting a story coming out of the American Heart Association's Cardiovascular Disease Epidemiology and Prevention annual conference in Palm Harbor, Florida yesterday. Medical researcher Dr. Kirsten Bibbins-Domingo, an assistant professor of medicine and...
March 2, 2009
Written by: Morton Satin
Two tough winters, back-to-back, may yet yield a silver lining. The difficulty in gaining access to sufficient quantities of salt has spurred many communities to invest in larger and better salt storage facilities. This will have a stabilizing effect on...
March 1, 2009
Written by: Morton Satin
Sanitary and phytosanitary measures are applied to protect human or animal life from risks arising from additives, contaminants, toxins or pathogenic organisms in their food. The World Trade Organization (WTO) Agreement on Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures (SPS) restricts the use...
February 28, 2009
Written by: Morton Satin
It is human nature to continually want to improve things. In a great many cases, when our knowledge was sufficient and the universe unfolded as expected, our efforts led to social, material and medical advances that have stood the test...
February 27, 2009
Written by: Morton Satin
Current plans to greatly expand research into new energy sources include a variety of alternative hydrocarbon replacements. Some of these are very unique and a recent issue of The Scientist describes the potential for using lipid-forming algae as a...
November 14, 2008
Written by: Morton Satin
It appears that we finally have something that we can agree upon with the Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI). According to a recent article prepared by Merrill Goozner of the Integrity in Science project at CSPI, and...
November 14, 2008
Written by: Morton Satin
Dietary Guidelines and the conflict of interest It appears that we finally have something that we can agree upon with the Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI). According to a recent article prepared by Merrill Goozner of the...
November 14, 2008
Written by: Morton Satin
Before the age of science, the influence of the classical Greek philosophers was so overwhelming that their simple opinions were taken as divine edicts. Anaximander (610-647 BCE) spent a good part of his life teaching students that animals were miraculously...
