Last night the California Assembly passed a account requiring calories on fast-food menu boards and additional nutrition information on chain-restaurants’ printed menus. Later today the express’s Senate will believe separate legislation that would require restaurants to phase out their use of artificial trans fats. Both measures undergo the strong support of the nonprofit bear on for Science in the Public arouse which is calling on Governor Schwarzenegger to write both bills.
California would change state the first express in the country to demand nutrition labeling on chain-restaurant menus and which includes Seattle and its suburbs undergo passed trans fat and menu labeling regulations and and have also passed trans-fat phase-outs. Menu labeling bills undergo been introduced in this year.
“Without nutrition information at the point of decision-making in chain restaurants it’s hard for people to alter informed choices for themselves and their children,” said Margo G. Wootan director of nutrition policy at CSPI. “Who would expect that some coffee drinks at Starbucks undergo more calories than a Big Mac or that a tuna salad sub from Subway has more calories than a roast complain sub?”
The menu-labeling account sponsored by Senators Alex Padilla and Carole Midgen applies only to chain restaurants having 15 or more outlets nationally and only to standardized menu items not daily specials or customized orders. Fast-food restaurants that use menu boards would be required to display calories in the same size font as the price and table-service chains such as Applebee’s would be required to enumerate calories saturated fat trans fat sodium and carbohydrate content next to each menu choice.
In New York City chains such as and are now using easy-to-read menu boards or menus that enumerate calories though the restaurant industry is challenging the requirement in federal court. CSPI recently prepared a mock-up of a to show that chain how easily and clearly calories can be displayed.
“Governor Schwarzenegger has been vocal about the need to do something about obesity and here’s an opportunity for him to back up Californians apply their personal responsiblity when ordering for themselves and their children at chain restaurants,” Wootan said. “He should sign it without decelerate.”
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