潜水简报:
The Salt Institute, a trade association for companies producing and selling salt for food, road applications and industrial manufacturing, closed down at the end of March,according to Food Business News。本集团自1914年以来一直存在，该网站报告。
"Over the years, the Salt Institute has made a positive impact demonstrating the essential nature of salt in our daily lives through fact-based information, research studies and educational tools," the institute's board said in a statement国家公共收音机报告。"The member companies are grateful for the expertise, dedication and support the Salt Institute has provided since its inception."
NPR表示没有具体的原因，封闭和LoriRoman, the institute's president,said she was no longer speaking for the association. NPR also said it had contacted major salt companies with employees on the Salt Institute's board, such as Cargill and Morton Salt, but they wouldn't provide any further information, either.
潜入洞察力：
盐业的声音现在沉默，没有关于为什么即将到来的细节。然而，NPR报告了该集团的前长期总统迪克哈尔曼说，盐业研究所在2010年离开时赚钱少于十几名成员公司。
“所以，如果有一些大公司对此失去兴趣，那么资金就消失了，”他告诉NPR。“我的意识是，盐公司的企业结构存在很大的变化。”
In advocating for salt consumption, the institute在2014年说那Americans是吃适量的盐，如果他们太多，那么身体就会消除它。但是，随着食品商业新闻指出的，本集团对钠消费量健康水平的看法与those of other consumer health related organizations and governmental regulatory agencies.
The 2015-2020 Dietary Guidelines for Americans recommend sodium levelsare kept below 2,300 milligrams daily。然而，根据食品商业新闻，盐业研究所将在去年夏天引用柳叶赛学习，发现钠摄入量仅与心血管疾病和社区中的中风相关，平均摄入量大于五克 - 或每天5,000毫克。
迈克尔雅各布森，科学家的高级科学家，公共利益，在一份声明中说the Salt Institute will not be missed.
"Over the years the Salt Institute has purposefully muddied the waters on sodium intake and health, going as far to say that Americans are eating只是正确的钠 -a position rejected by virtually every health authority," Jacobson said. He added any doubt had evaporated with the recent publication of a国家科学院的报告concluding那cutting current levels of salt consumption不仅会降低血压，还会降低心血管疾病的风险。
While the Salt Institute's website has also gone dark,archived images from February show促进盐作为成分和盐作为融化冰在道路上的工具。
With closure of the Salt Institute, the ingredient no longer has a formal trade association advocate at a time when talk about appropriate consumption levels is heating up. The 2020 Dietary Guidelines for Americans开始形成的呢和consumer and public health groups will be lobbying for lowered sodium level recommendations.
Perhaps in the absence of the group, more sodium reduction will take place.根据全国范围的研究published in 2017 in the Journal of the American Medical Association, sodium levels in packaged foods dropped by 12% between 2000 and 2014.
Companieshave already been trimming响应于更改偏好，食物和饮料中的钠的量。这些天，食品行业的天然凝块策略特别感兴趣，具有替代成分made from mushrooms, milk和yeast extracts, among other sources, drawing increased attention.
许多消费者通过检查标签有意识地限制了他们的钠摄入量，而不是在桌子上添加盐并限制咸零食。制造商如雀巢，Campbell，Unilever，Pepsico和其他人通过重新制定食谱并以创新的方式响应了这一趋势减少钠在他们的产品中。根据CDC research。
与此同时，另一个宣传群体将出现取代盐研究所。如果没有倡导者的倡导者，它可能意味着额外的减少钠和增加政府的政策限制。
