GENEVA (AP) — The world's biggest food and drink company is pledging to speed up making hundreds of products with less salt to honor new U.N. dietary guidelines.


Swiss-based Nestle says further cuts in salt would be made in all its food brands worldwide in keeping with the World Health Organization's new guideline earlier this year that adults should limit salt intake to no more than five grams per day.


The company's statement Monday said hundreds of products would be affected, including soups, noodles, recipe mixes, frozen and chilled meals and pizzas in popular brands such as Maggi, Stouffer's and DiGiorno.


Nestle says it previous efforts "to progressively and continuously reduce the salt in its foods" have already reduced the amount of salt used in its recipes by 14,043 tons compared to 2005.



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    A plentiful list of companies have labeled their products "organic" even though they didn't meet the requirements necessary to deserve said designation. In 2007, an organic watchdog group filed a complaint against<a href="http://www.organicconsumers.org/articles/article_3793.cfm"> Walmart for mislabeling some of its food as organic</a>. Then just this February, ABC News discovered that <a href="http://www.abcactionnews.com/dpp/news/local_news/investigations/no-testing-procedures-in-place-to-assure-organic-produce-is-chemical-free-so-we-tested-ourselves">there is actually no established testing procedure </a>in place to ensure that foods labeled organic are free from synthetic chemicals.




  • Fish


    The recent study conducted by Oceana, an international ocean advocacy group, found that<a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/02/21/seafood-fraud-study-mislabeling_n_2733377.html"> 84 percent</a> of fish samples labeled "white tuna" were actually escolar. The study also found that <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/02/21/seafood-fraud-study-mislabeling_n_2733377.html">87 percent of red snapper</a> in the U.S. is mislabeled.




  • Sausage


    In 2009, a big meat producer recalled about 2,000 pounds of frozen sausage<a href="http://www.delish.com/food/recalls-reviews/mislabeled-sausage-and-lethal-burritos"> because it contained milk and soy</a> that was not indicated on the package. More recently, in 2012, 1.7 million pounds of mislabeled sausages were recalled for not indicating that the product contained MSG. Most disturbingly, <a href="http://www.wtvy.com/4yourhealth/headlines/South-Africa-Donkey-Buffalo-Found-in-Mislabeled-Sausage-193748661.html">donkey and water buffalo</a> were discovered to be in two-thirds of sausages tested this year in South Africa.




  • Energy Drinks


    Consumer Reports tested <a href="http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-204_162-57540470/consumer-reports-energy-drinks-may-mislabel-caffeine-amounts/">16 different types of energy drinks</a> and found five that actually had 20 percent more caffeine than was indicated on the label: Arizona Energy, Clif Shot Turbo Energy Gel, Nestl? Jamba, Sambazon Organic Amazon Energy, and Venom Energy. Another drink that was tested actually had 70 percent more caffeine!




  • Milk


    Got diet milk? Most recently, the milk industry came under fire for attempting to drop the aspartame label, hoping to sell customers milk without them knowing that it <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/02/26/aspartame-milk_n_2764729.html">contains artificial sweeteners</a>. Many people are more familiar with aspartame's brand name: Equal.




  • Eggs


    This February, German authorities began investigating close to<a href="http://www.sacbee.com/2013/02/25/5215824/egg-fraud-germany-probes-mislabeled.html#storylink=cpy"> 150 farms for making inaccurate claims about their egg quality.</a> The eggs were being sold as "organic" or "free range," but may not actually meet the requirements for that classification.




  • Beef


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  • Halal Food


    Earlier this year, various companies in China were accused of mislabeling products <a href="http://www.rfa.org/english/news/uyghur/halal-01182013161229.html">actually made in China</a> as halal imports from Islamic nations, Radio Free Asia reports. In 2011, a South African company came under fire for labeling their meat product as halal,<a href="http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/globalpost-blogs/weird-wide-web/111116/south-africa-halal-pork-orion-cold-storage-kangaroo-buffalo-meat"> even though it contained pork and kangaroo meat</a>.




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