Salt regulation

The New York Times (Feb.26): "“The E.U. is trying to change the way we bake our bread, change the way we market it — and of all things, change the taste of our bread,” Mr. Wiemers said. “And all this is taking place just months before we go to the polls to elect a new European Parliament. This is exactly the kind of interference and overregulation by Brussels that annoys citizens and even makes the E.U. unpopular.”
German bakers pointed out that this time around, the European Union was not only trying to dictate taste, but was undermining its goal of improving energy efficiency. “So, we are being asked to change our recipes by reducing the level of salt. But that means we will have to bake the bread for longer and use more energy,” a spokesman for Bavaria’s 2,500 bakeries, Roland Ried, said.... Back in 2006, in what was viewed as a move to improve people’s health, by, for example, helping them cut back their intake of salt, sugar and saturated fats, the commission published a consultative paper about labeling of food products." Read more.