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The U.S. Supreme Court ruled on portions of the 2010 Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) on June 28, 2012. However, the Supreme Court did not address the menu labeling requirements established by the Act. Under ACA, restaurants with twenty or more locations are required to list calorie content information for standard menu items on restaurant menus/ menu boards and provide written nutritional information upon customer request. Whereas, vending machine operators with twenty or more vending machines must prominently display each food’s calorie content. ACA assigned the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) with devising the menu labeling regulations. The FDA had announced proposed regulations on April 6, 2011 with final rules to be issued prior to the end of 2011. However, a final rule has not yet been made.
The FDA still welcomes comments. To electronically present comments to the proposed regulations, go to: http://www.regulations.gov/#!home
This means that if a restaurant changed the mayonnaise on a sandwich, or the recipe for their bread... they'd have to re-print every menu, at every restaurant, or face being fined $2000 a day until the menus are reprinted. Even a coin-op vendor with more than 20 machines must label caloric content for every product in his machines, or face the same $2000 fines.
Whens the last time you bought a food product from a vending machine and worried about the calories in the item?
Prepare to get laser printed menus on 8x11 white paper (disposable menus)
It's truly mind boggling how deep and controlling the affordable health (laugh) act is. 10,000 fine print pages and growing.
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled on portions of the 2010 Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) on June 28, 2012. However, the Supreme Court did not address the menu labeling requirements established by the Act. Under ACA, restaurants with twenty or more locations are required to list calorie content information for standard menu items on restaurant menus/ menu boards and provide written nutritional information upon customer request. Whereas, vending machine operators with twenty or more vending machines must prominently display each food’s calorie content. ACA assigned the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) with devising the menu labeling regulations. The FDA had announced proposed regulations on April 6, 2011 with final rules to be issued prior to the end of 2011. However, a final rule has not yet been made.
The FDA still welcomes comments. To electronically present comments to the proposed regulations, go to: http://www.regulations.gov/#!home
This means that if a restaurant changed the mayonnaise on a sandwich, or the recipe for their bread... they'd have to re-print every menu, at every restaurant, or face being fined $2000 a day until the menus are reprinted. Even a coin-op vendor with more than 20 machines must label caloric content for every product in his machines, or face the same $2000 fines.
Whens the last time you bought a food product from a vending machine and worried about the calories in the item?
Prepare to get laser printed menus on 8x11 white paper (disposable menus)
It's truly mind boggling how deep and controlling the affordable health (laugh) act is. 10,000 fine print pages and growing.
This is our federal government trying to run every aspect of American life. Next step in this type of federal tyrany is to tell restaurants what foods they may and may not serve to customers, or to dictate fat, sodium, sugar and other ingredients. You can bet your ass Michelle would love to be able to dictate this to you and me.
This is our federal government trying to run every aspect of American life. Next step in this type of federal tyrany is to tell restaurants what foods they may and may not serve to customers, or to dictate fat, sodium, sugar and other ingredients. You can bet your ass Michelle would love to be able to dictate this to you and me.
Lot of restaurants have been doing this for years, because that's what their customers want. I prefer knowing how many calories I consume.
This goes above and beyond a restaurant giving their customers a calorie guide, the food, all food, would need to be sent to an FDA approved lab to analyze it. So if a typical restaurant wants to try a new recipe, to see if customers like it, they will have to go thru the expense of having it analyzed and supply all new menus.
Everyday, I see stores, restaurants and even gas stations going to digital signs so that they are able to change prices and information with a simple update on a computer.
Restaurants that I go to now use digital / tv menus. If the calorie count changes, it's a simple change to the menu. No reprinting involved. paper menus are cheap to produce if you keep it to 2 colors / double-sided and tri-fold.
sit down restaurants are now simplifying their menus that can be reprinted easily at a cheaper cost. 1 sheet with all the information you need.
highly overblown and unnecessary "scare" tactics.
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