Research conducted by The George Institute for Global Health has revealed that just 36 per cent of intended supermarket items carried a Health Star Rating, which provides consumers with a simple five-star scale to support healthier purchasing decisions – well short of this year’s 60 per cent target set by the federal government.

Recommendations drive funders and researchers to account for the role of sex and gender in health and disease.

Mandating stringent targets for sodium levels in Australian packaged foods in line with World Health Organization (WHO) recommendations could prevent around 40,000 cardiovascular events (including heart attacks and strokes) and up to 3,000 deaths over a ten-year period, according to new research published today in The Lancet Public Health.