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Action on Salt warns of ready meal ‘crisis’

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New research from Action on Salt, based at Queen Mary University of London, reveals that shops are selling “worryingly salty ready meals” – with calls mounting for urgent government action to improve the nutritional quality of foods. In what it describes as the most extensive…

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