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FDA commissioner issues new guidance for menu labeling

By News Desk on November 9, 2017

Ahead of the effective date for those new, long-awaited menu labeling regulations, which is May 7, 2018, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration is out with some non-binding “guidance” to help with implementation. FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb rolled out the guidance this week, using the occasion to underscore his commitment…
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Restaurant menus now likely to contain calorie counts by 2018

By Dan Flynn on August 28, 2017

The Affordable Care Act is intact, Bill de Blasio is on hold, and FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb is on board.

That means big restaurants’ menus might yet be required to include calorie counts under federal regulations.

Let’s take these developments one at a time.

Legal authority for menu labeling rests…
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Menu labeling might lose congressional backing before it starts

By Dan Flynn on May 15, 2017

If the mood at one of the final sessions of last week’s Food Safety Summit near Chicago said anything, it said federal menu labeling might be “A Bridge Too Far.”

Panelists acknowledged they thought about canceling the session after the Food and Drug Administration opted to again delay enforcement of…
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