Salt Facts

Salt Facts: "13) Who owns the salt-producing companies? It depends. In Switzerland “almost all of the cantons have transferred their salt monopoly to the United Swiss Rhine Salt Works of which they are the exclusive shareholders.” (ICCIDD, 2003) ESCO is one of Europe’s biggest salt suppliers. It is a new company formed recently by k+s AG (Kassels) and Solvay (Brussles), the well-known global fluoride supplier. ESCO operates 15 plants, and has 6 national sales organisations in 6 European countries. Mexico has the biggest salt works in the world. It is owned by the government - together with Mitsubishi. The plant is also one of the worst fluoride polluters, discharging many millions of gallons of fluoride-polluted wastes into the Ojo de Liebre lagoon every year (Tovar et al, 2002)."