Long before refrigeration, freezing and modern packaging technologies existed, people used salt to preserve meat, fish and other foods for longer periods.…
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Testing fluid-inclusion analytical methods with laboratory-grown halite in NaCl-KCl-MgCl2-CaCl2 brine systems.
A sourced profile of Tim K. Lowenstein’s research on halite fluid inclusions, ancient seawater chemistry and evaporite geochemistry.
The Brennan and Lowenstein 2002 reconstruction of Silurian seawater from 100 inclusions in Michigan and Canning Basin halites.
The 2005 Lowenstein study reconstructing Permian seawater major-ion chemistry from halite fluid inclusions.
Who Is Dr Flavia Fayet-Moore? Pink Salt Mineral Analysis and Nutrition Research
A sourced profile of Flavia Fayet-Moore’s role in the 2020 study of pink-salt mineral composition.
Who Is Dr Jie Yu? SSaSS, Cardiology and the Economic Evaluation of Salt Substitution
A sourced profile of Jie Yu’s SSaSS authorship, cardiology affiliation and role in the economic-evaluation protocol for salt substitution.
Who Is Prof. J. Jaime Miranda? Salt Substitution, Hypertension and Population Health Research in Peru
A sourced profile of Jaime Miranda’s role in community-wide salt substitution and hypertension research in Peru.
Who Is Prof. Yangfeng Wu? Cardiovascular Prevention, Salt Substitution and SSaSS Research in China
A sourced profile of Yangfeng Wu’s role in cardiovascular epidemiology, salt substitution and SSaSS in China.
Who Is Dr Maoyi Tian? Salt Substitution, Implementation Science and Chronic-Disease Research in China
A profile of Maoyi Tian’s work in chronic-disease management, implementation science and salt-substitution research around SSaSS.
Who Is Xuejun Yin? Salt Substitution, Implementation Barriers and Low-Sodium Salt Research in China
A profile of Xuejun Yin’s work on availability, acceptability and implementation barriers for low-sodium salts in China and globally.
Who Is Prof. Dike Bevis Ojji? Hypertension, Salt Reduction and Cardiovascular Research in Nigeria
A profile of Dike Ojji’s work on hypertension, hypertensive heart disease and salt reduction in Nigeria.
Salt Reduction and Salt Substitution in Nigeria: Dike Ojji’s Low- and Middle-Income Country Perspective
A sourced framework for household salt use, sodium reduction and potassium-enriched salt substitution in Nigeria.
Who Is Dr Kathy Trieu? Global Salt Policy, Sodium Reduction and Potassium-Enriched Salt Research
A profile of Kathy Trieu’s research on global salt policy, sodium reduction and implementation of potassium-enriched salt.
How Is Potassium-Enriched Salt Being Scaled Globally? Kathy Trieu and the George Institute Program
Global scaling of potassium-enriched salt through availability, price, acceptability, labelling and policy.