*2.2. Legislative Norms on Recommended Daily Sodium Intake*

Globally, institutions such as the European Union are actively promoting the reduction of salt content in food. The European Parliament and the EU Council approved in 2006 a regulation on nutrition and healthy food (EC) No. 1924/2006 (European Commission (EC), 2006), this document allowing, among other things, the use of nutritional claims regarding the sodium/sodium chloride content of foods. These regulations allow consumers to focus on the salt content of food with the help of inscriptions found on product packaging [1]. Article 8 of EU Regulation 1924/2006 lists the following restrictions for sodium/sodium chloride claims it's shown in Table 1.




**Table 1.** *Cont.*
