Dietary sodium and sugar intakes are closely related to health. Excessive sodium intake will increase the risk of developing hypertension, fatal stroke and coronary heart disease while dietary sugar intake is a determinant of body weight and dental caries.
The Centre for Food Safety (CFS) of the Food and Environmental Hygiene Department has been striving to safeguard food safety and promote healthy eating in Hong Kong, including conducting relevant risk assessment studies, implementing nutrition labelling scheme in prepackaged foods and preparing trade guidelines on reducing dietary sodium, sugar and fats.
To know more about Sodium (Salt) Reduction and Sugar Reduction, click the below links.
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Salt Reduction Together
Activities
- Workshop on Reduction of Sodium in Soup
- Food Safety Day 2017 – Hong Kong’s Action on Salt and Sugar Reduction: Read Labels, Choose Smartly Uploaded on 26/10/2017
- Low-Salt and Low-Sugar Front-of-pack Label Design Competition, Smart Choices for Low-Salt and Low-Sugar Slogan Writing cum Poster Design Competition - List of Awardees Uploaded on 25/10/2017
- Food Safety Day 2016 – Hong Kong’s Action on Salt and Sugar Reduction cum Junior Chefs’Culinary Ideas of Salt and Sugar Reduction Competition and Award Presentation Ceremony
- International Symposium on Reduction of Salt and Sugar in Food
- Public Lecture
Press Release
- Government announces appointments to Committee on Reduction of Salt and Sugar in Food (15 March 2024)
- Government announces appointments to Committee on Reduction of Salt and Sugar in Food (26 February 2021)
- Appointments to Committee on Reduction of Salt and Sugar in Food (14 March 2018)
- Healthy eating tips in Lunar New Year food by the Committee on Reduction of Salt and Sugar in Food (with photos) (24 January 2017)
- Committee on Reduction of Salt and Sugar in Food discusses measures to reduce salt and sugar (8 January 2016)
- CFS encourages public to develop healthy eating habit with less salt and sugar (26 June 2015)
- Centre for Food Safety holds international symposium to promote healthy diet with less salt and sugar (12 May 2015)
- Government sets up committee to promote reduction of salt and sugar in food (13 March 2015)
- CFS launches Facebook page on Hong Kong's Action on Salt and Sugars Reduction (16 January 2015)
- CFS strives to reduce dietary sodium and sugars in Hong Kong (with photo/video) (11 November 2014)
LegCo Paper
- Implementation of measures to reduce salt and sugar in food (Informative note) (14 September 2021)
- Implementation of measures to reduce salt and sugar in food (Informative note) (12 May 2020)
- Initiatives on the reduction of salt and sugar in food (Informative note) (12 March 2019)
- Initiatives on the reduction of salt and sugar in food (Informative note) (14 November 2017)
- Reduction of Salt and Sugar in Food (Informative note) (14 April 2015))
- Reduction of Salt and Sugar in Food (14 April 2015)
- Reduction of Salt and Sugar Content in Food (28 May 2013)
Frequently Asked Questions
- Hong Kong's Action on Salt and Sugar Reduction "Updated in May 2015"
- Reduce dietary sodium (salt) in Hong Kong (Public) "Updated in July 2023"
- Reduce dietary sodium (salt) in Hong Kong (Trade) "Updated in July 2023"
- Reduce dietary sugar in Hong Kong (Public) "Updated in December 2015"
- Reduce dietary sugar in Hong Kong (Trade) "Updated in December 2015"
Resource Materials on Reduction of Salt and Sugar in Food and Nutrition Labelling
Less-Salt-and-Sugar Recipes
- Chinese version
- Indonesian version (Resep Rendah Guladan Garam - Bahasa Indonesia)
- Tagalog version (Mga Resiping may Mabang Bilang ng Asin at Asukal - Tagalog)