NY restaurants face total salt ban if politician gets his way

By Tom Leonard in New York 1231AM GMT twelve March 2010

Felix Ortiz has due a check that would anathema the make use of of salt in New York restaurants Photo CORBIS

Bill A10129 would excellent restaurateurs $1000 (�600) each time they were held adding salt to food.

Felix Ortiz, a New York representative who due the bill, pronounced it would concede diners to select either to do it themselves.

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The administration department of Michael Bloomberg, New York City"s mayor, has already outlawed smoking from most open areas, criminialized diseased trans fats from rebuilt food and systematic most restaurants to list the calories in each object on the menu. He additionally favours a new taxation on honeyed fizzy drinks to assistance cut obesity.

An estimated 1.5 million New Yorkers humour from high red blood vigour and Mr Bloomberg is penetrating to inspire people to devour less sodium, that can intensify the problem.

However, the mayor has stopped well short of proposing an undisguised anathema on restaurants adding salt, instead campaigning for a intentional cut of a entertain over five years.

Mr Ortiz claimed that shortening the sodium calm of food could cut deaths in the city by as most as 100,000.

My Food My Choice, a bloc of restaurateurs, chefs and consumers, described his offer as "absurd".