Table 3.

Priorities and actions publically reported by Australian food manufacturers—salt.

Company Name Major Relevant Australian-Made Brands	Example Relevant Products	Documentation of Salt Reduction	Example Priorities or Actions
Arnotts Campbells	Crackers, savoury biscuits, canned soups	✓	“Campbell Arnott’s …have undertaken a stepwise reduction of sodium in order to meet the Tick’s sodium criteria for soups. In 2004, only 33% of Campbell’s soups met the Tick’s sodium criteria of 300 mg/100 g or less. By 2009, approximately 83% of all Campbell’s soups met the sodium criteria”. Source: Personal communication from Arnotts (28 May 2017)
Baiada Poultry Steggles, Lilydale	Chicken nuggets, kievs, schnitzels	✓	Steggles supplies products that are compliant with the Australian School Canteen association’s nutrition bodies, which stipulate products must have: “450 mg or less of sodium per 100 g”. Source: “Healthy Chicken for Kids” section of Steggles website (visited 22 May 2017)
Bega Cheese	Cheese
Bellamy’s Organic	Toddler snacks, pasta
Burra Foods	Cheese
Cerebos Asian Home Gourmet, Fountain & Gravox	Gravies, sauces, ready meals	✓	Fountain has created a healthier range of sauces, which include: “25% less added salt than Fountain regular tomato and barbeque 500 mL squeeze sauces” Source: Fountain sauces website (visited 18 May 2017)
Coca-Cola Amatil SPC, Ardmona	Baked beans, tinned spaghetti	✓	In 2014 “Reduced salt and sugar in key tomato products helping Australians eat healthier”. Source: 90 year history section of SPC Ardmona website (visited 18 May 2017)
Cordina Chicken Farms	Schnitzel, nibbles, burgers
Devondale Murray Goulburn	Cheese, cream cheese, butter
Freedom Foods Group Freedom Foods	Cereals, snacks, spreads	✓	“At Freedom Foods…You won’t find any that have more than 600 mg of sodium per 100 g”. Source: “Salt” section of Freedom Foods website (visited 18 May 2017)
General Mills Holding (Australia) Latina Fresh, Nature Valley, Old El Paso, Pasta Master	Pasta sauce, snacks tacos	✓	Old El Paso offers a “reduced salt taco spice mix”, also “healthy fiesta” burrito kit packet with the Heart Foundation tick. Source: Old El Paso website (visited 18 May 2017)
George Weston Foods Tip Top, Don, KR Castlemaine, Mauri ANZ	Bread, small goods, bread-making products	✓	“Reducing salt GWF is one of Australia’s first companies to establish a sodium criteria as part of the National Heart Foundation Heart Tick program and Voluntary Sodium Reduction Roundtable initiative. Since 2007, we’ve reduced salt across our breads and small goods, contributing to the removal of more than 340 tonnes of salt from Australian diets.” Source: “Corporate Responsibility at GWF” document, GWF website (visited 11 April 2017)
Goodman Fielder Country Life, Golden Canola, Helgas, Holbrooks, Irvines, La Famiglia Kitchen, Lawsons, Logicol, Meadowlea, MacKenzie, Mighty Soft, Molenberg, Olive Grove, Praise, White Wings, Wonder White	Bread, pastry, cheese, sauces, spreads, cake mixes	✓	Helgas wraps advertised as salt-reduced wraps: “40% less salt than the market leader”. Source: Helgas website (visited 11 May 2017)
Green’s Foods Waterthins, Poppin, Roccas Deli	Crackers, popcorn
Heinz	Baked beans, canned tomatoes, sauces	✓	“At Heinz we’re always interested in discovering new way to make our products even more nutritious and appealing—from…to our growing section of reduced sugar and salt products”. Source: Health section, Heinz website (visited 1 May 2017)
Ingham’s	Nuggets
Kellogg Australia Holdings	Cereal, snack bars	✓	“2012—We announced that we’d reduced the salt levels in Corn Flakes and Rice Bubbles cereals in Australia by 20%. This reduction meant that since 1997, we’d reduced salt levels across our cereals by up to 59%—that equates to approximately 276 metric tonnes, or more than 4.9 m salt shakers (60 g) removed from Australian diets every year.” Source: Our history section of Kellogg’s website (visited 26 May 2017)
Mars Dolmio, KanTong, Master foods, Uncle Bens	Sauces, spreads and rice-based ready meals	✓	“We have been progressively reducing salt across our total portfolio in line with our commitment to the Department of Health and Ageing salt reduction targets, and many of our products now carry the National Heart Foundation Tick…” Source: “Food” section of Mars Australia website (visited 17 April 2017)
McCain Foods	Ready-meals, pizzas
Mondelez Australia Vegemite	Crackers, spread	✓	“Reduced Salt VEGEMITE is best enjoyed by the many Australians consciously reducing their salt intake for health and wellbeing reasons. Older Australians and parents wishing to choose lower salt options for the family will love Reduced Salt VEGEMITE…” Source: Vegemite website (visited 3 April 2017)
Nestle Maggi, Milo, Uncle Toby’s	Breakfast cereal, bars, drink, noodles, stock	✓	“…The foundation members of the Healthier Australia Commitment…have voluntarily agreed to the following collective targets for reductions … by 2015: Reduce sodium in products by 25 per cent—equivalent to over 270,000 kilograms of sodium removed from the food supply…” Source: Nestle media release 2012, on website (visited 28 April 2017)
Norco Co-Op	Butter, cheese
Parmalat Australia Lemnos, President	Cheese
Patties Foods Four’N’Twenty, Herbert Adams, Nanna’s	Pies, pastries, sausage rolls
Pepsico Australia & New Zealand Doritos Corn Chips, Nobby’s Nuts, Red Rock Deli, Parker’s Pretzels, Sakata Rice Crackers, Smith’s Chips, Sunbites, Twisties	Breakfast cereal, snack foods	✓	“The reduction in saturated fat follows Smith’s previous commitment of a 25% reduction in salt content across its product range by 2012. Forty products have thus far been reformulated.” Source: Media release “Smiths—Australia’s favourite chip now has 75% less saturated fat” available on Smiths website (visited 26 April 2017)
Sanitarium	Breakfast cereal	✓	Health Star Rating salt standards have set the agenda for their product reformulation work—previously they had their own internal nutrition standards, but the new initiative has superseded this. Source: Personal email (received 30 May 2017)
San Remo	Pasta and sauces
Scalzo Food Industries	Snacks
Simplot Australia Birds Eye, Leggos, Edgell, Lean Cuisine, Harvest, Chiko, I&J, Top Cut, Five Tastes, Simply Great Meals	Frozen snacks, ready-meals, meal kits, meat, small goods	✓	“We are proud to report that 29 tonnes of salt has been removed from our Leggo’s pasta sauce range as a direct result of [the Food and Health Dialogue]…” Source: Nutrition news section “reducing sodium for better health” dated 10 October 2016 (visited 11 May 2017)
Sunrice	Rice, snacks
Thomas Foods International	Burgers, meatballs, sausages
Unilever Australia Bertoli, Continental, Flora	Margarine, pasta, sauces, stock, soup	✓	Unilever reports their global progress, but also their progress by nation state. In Australia in 2016 68% of the foods in their portfolio met the salt levels they devised to reach the WHO 5 g per day target. Source: Performance against the USLP global nutrition targets in key countries report (2016)
Warrnambool Cheese & Butter	Cheese, butter

Table Key: Obtained a tick (Reformulation concerning any salt/sodium nutrients; Reduced-salt product lines; Described participation in Food and Health Dialogue, Heart Foundation Tick program, the Healthy Food Partnership, Industry reformulation activities); Did not obtain a tick (Reformulation concerning other nutrients; No evidence of Australian product lines reducing salt/sodium).