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FDA Requires Calorie Count, Even For Movie Theater Popcorn

November 25, 2014 By Cliff Jenkins Scott

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New labeling requirements for ready-to-eat food mean you will soon see calorie count from movie theater popcorn to sugary cocktails. The US government is ready to publish extensive new rules that will oblige chain restaurants to unveil calorie counts on menus, making a national standard that seizes the current patchwork of state laws and applies to restaurant networks with 20 or more outlets.

The new long-awaited rules, which are a part of the 2010 Affordable Care Act, were advertised by the Food and Drug Administration and also apply to huge retailing machine administrators. As per the new guidelines, calories must be shown on all menus and menu sheets. Other nutritional data – including calories from fat, total fat, saturated fat, trans fat, cholesterol, sodium, total carbohydrates, fiber, sugars and protein – must be made accessible in the inscription upon demand.

Margaret Hamburg, FDA Commissioner said on a conference call with columnists on Monday, “Obesity appears to be a national pandemic that affects a lot of Americans. Conspicuously, Americans consume and drink around a third of their calories far from home.”

The last rule, dissimilar to a proposal issued in 2011, includes cinemas and entertainment parks. It also includes alcoholic beverages served in restaurants, however, not beverages blended or served at a bar.

The org said it rolled out improvements to its proposal after considering more than 1,100 remarks from industry, public health advocates and customers. It limits the scope of food covered to visibly concentrate on restaurant-type sustenance. Foods, for example, deli meat purchased at a store counter will be avoided.

The restaurant business responded positively to the progressions.

“We accept that the Food and Drug Administration has decidedly dealt with the territories of most prominent concern,” said Dawn Sweeney, CEO of the National Restaurant Association, which represents 990,000 restaurant and food-service outlets.

A few organizations as of now show calorie data. Panera Bread Co in 2010 turned out to be the first to deliberately show calorie data at all its bistros across the country. Others, including McDonald Corp and Starbucks Corp, went with the same pattern.

Foods covered by the new calorie rule include, menu items at sit-down restaurants, takeout food, bakery items, ice cream from an ice-cream store, pizza, labeled by the slice and by whole pie. Moreover, seasonal menu items, for example, Thanksgiving dinner, day by day specials and standard sauces will be absolved.

Hamburg accredited that calorie counts for pizza wedges and several other foods made on the premises will vary and may not generally be accurate. Restaurants may draw on a range of databases, cookbooks and food package labels to compute the calorie counts.

“The organization did not observe a genuine effect on its business from menu labeling. Of course, there would be a hop in sales of higher calorie items to lower calorie items,” Katie Bengston, Panera’s nutrition manager said.

Restaurants have one year to conform to the new rules after subsequent publication in the Federal Register. Retailing machine administrators have two years to go along.

The guidelines intend to close a loophole in the 1990 Nutrition Labeling and Education Act, which secured food labeling on most items, however not restaurants or other ready-to-eat foods.

 

 

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About Cliff Jenkins Scott

Cliff likes to describe himself as made for the hard road. Freelancing is taking off across the world. And yet, valuable opportunities are hard to find he thinks, particularly when it comes to writing. After graduating with an MA degree in Communication as a major and Technology and Writing as minors, Cliff decided to give his own website hosting creative writing a boost and engage in an overwhelming number of projects, all of them focused on writing. He didn’t look for a quick burnout, but his eagerness to learn as much as possible as rapidly as possible kept him going.

Filed Under: Health Tagged With: Affordable Care Act, bakery items, calorie count, cholesterol, FDA, fiber, Food and Drug Administration, Margaret Hamburg, McDonald Corp, Panera Bread Co, popcorn, protein, ready-to-eat food, saturated fat, sodium, Starbucks Corp, sugars, takeout food, total carbohydrates, Trans fat

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