On May 5, the FDA will begin enforcing its new
menu labeling rules, which requires that restaurants and other away - from - home food retailers include calorie counts on menus and signage.
Establishments that are not covered under the federal rule would remain subject to applicable state or local
menu labeling rules, unless they choose to voluntarily register with FDA to comply with the federal menu labeling requirements.
The menu labeling rules apply to restaurants and «similar retail food establishments» that have 20 or more locations, doing business under substantially the same name, and selling substantially the same menu items, regardless of type of ownership.
Not exact matches
One reason why a business may want to voluntarily register to be covered by the final
rule is to avoid state or local
menu labeling requirements.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) released two final
rules for
menu and vending machine
labeling on Nov. 25.
The FDA's release of final
rules for
menu labeling last year significantly expanded its regulatory reach to restaurants and beyond.
In response to new
menu and vending machine calorie
labeling rules released by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, the American Beverage Association issued the following statement:
In October, he announced that he'd gotten Coca - Cola, PepsiCo, and Dr Pepper Snapple to agree to post calorie information on vending machines in Chicago government buildings (something that they will have to do anyway whenever the FDA ever gets around to issuing final
rules for
menu labeling).