• The years of salt

    Open Forum     |      November 20, 2024

    Reducing the amount of hidden salt in Australia’s processed food could help save thousands of lives a year, according to a new report in a medical journal.

  • Take food industry promises with a large pinch of salt

    Open Forum     |      January 14, 2020

    Major Australian food manufacturers are failing to deliver on voluntary commitments to make healthier products when it comes to salt, according to a new study of salt levels in foods on our supermarket shelves.

  • Fighting the ‘white cancer’ threatening global food security

    Nerissa Hannink     |      July 21, 2018

    Researchers have made a ‘game changing’ shift in our understanding of how plants succumb to high levels of salt in agricultural soils.