Part of the 1,990 page health care reform bill introduced by Nancy Pelosi yesterday (October 29th, 2009) includes a new mandate for chain restaurants with over 20 public locations. The bill proposes that the specified restaurants would be required to prominently post the amount of calories and in some cases more nutritional information for standard menu items. The bill, if passed, will also require salad bars, other buffets, self service, and cafeteria lines to display calorie counts in addition to normal restaurant menus. Along with the posting, restaurants will be required to post “designed to enable the public to understand, in the context of a total daily diet, the significance of the nutrition information that is provided” next to the caloric info. The provision of the bill would also require vending machines to post calorie information.
This bill is strongly supported by the National Restaurant Association who is also pushing a bill for there to be a standard form of calorie display that would override the differences different states and counties have in their requirements for how nutritional information is displayed. The vice president of media relations for the National Restaurant Association, Mike Donahue, stated to the press, "We're very pleased that the nutrition information provision continues to garner bipartisan support, and we're pleased that the agreement is now moving forward in the House of Representatives."
The Senate’s Health, Education, Labor and Pensions committee bill also includes similar calorie posting provisions.
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The health care bill is just the start of, not only labeling food, but eventually telling each of us what we can & cannot eat without being fined or a criminal. It's coming.
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And this really needed to be a part of this healthcare debacle?
Good information on this article, thanks
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