§ Mr. BorrowTo ask the Secretary of State for Health what role the Department of Health plays in the Scientific Advisory Committee on Nutrition's review of the evidence on salt; in what form the SACN will publish the results of their consideration of evidence on salt in 729W the diets of adults and children; and whether consultees will be given the opportunity to comment on the draft of SACN's report on salt prior to publication. [54245]
§ Yvette CooperThe Department provides the joint Secretariat for Scientific Advisory Committee on Nutrition (SACN) with the Food Standards Agency.
SACN's review of salt will be the first such report published by this new committee (which held its first meeting in June 2001). The final form of the report has not yet been decided. It will be placed on the SACN website to make it available to stakeholders as soon as it has been agreed by the committee. There are no plans to conduct consultation on the report before this is done.