Not knowing what prepared food contains is an issue that can affect people’s health. This is the reason why all prepared food should, ideally, be at least accompanied by calorie info. People are entitled to know what they eat in order to make proper choices.
According to the Food and Drug administration, all restaurants and other establishments that sell prepared food and have more than 20 locations are required to make the calories of the food they offer, public.
This mean that people will see exactly how many calories all products have, since all the information will be posted on the menus or other displays.
WHAT WILL PEOPLE SEE ON THE MENUS?
This law is not only for restaurants, but also for all the stores that sell prepared food, as well as bakeries, and even coffee shops. Furthermore, when going in amusement parks, people will have the chance to choose meals, according to the number of calories they have.
In addition, to making calorie info in each meal public, restaurants must offer other information, in the customers request it. Therefore, whoever is interested in information like sodium, sugar or fat, is entitled to receive it.
WHEN WILL CALORIE info BE ON THE MENU?
But, unfortunately, people must wait a while until restaurants will have the menus updated, with all the calorie info added, as the Food and Drug Administration recently announced.
So, until December 1st, 2016, none of the above will be available. People have to wait more than one year until restaurants comply with federal menu labeling rules, even if the original deadline was much earlier.
The reason why FDA extended the deadline is that a large number of retailers ask for more time, in order to manage installing new menus, as well as creating software and other technology, that will aid the process of displaying calories and other information about the food served.
Food industry welcomes delays
While many health militants consider this delay a win for the restaurant lobbyists, the food industry welcomed it, not only because of the lack of time, but also because of the costs this new rule seems to involve.
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