Labeling

FMI says labeling of menu items should not include grocery stores

Group says legislation not intended to apply to grocery stores

By Wayne Labs, Senior Contributing Technical Editor

The Food Marketing Institute (FMI) is urging “common sense” in implementing the Nutrition Labeling of Standard Menu Items at Chain Restaurants provision of the Affordable Care Act. FMI wants to make sure mainstream grocery stores are excluded from the provision requiring restaurants to disclose nutrition information. Reps. John Carter (R-TX) and Henry Cuellar (D-TX) and Senator Roy Blunt (R-MO) have introduced legislation that would return the scope of the law to what they say was originally intended by Congress, which never mentioned grocery stores.

KEYWORDS: labeling nutrition

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Wayne Labs has more than 30 years of editorial experience in industrial automation. He served as senior technical editor for I&CS/Control Solutions magazine for 18 years where he covered software, control system hardware and sensors/transmitters. Labs ran his own consulting business and contributed feature articles to Electronic Design, Control, Control Design, Industrial Networking and Food Engineering magazines. Before joining Food Engineering, he served as a senior technical editor for Omega Engineering Inc. Labs also worked in wireless systems and served as a field engineer for GE’s Mobile Communications Division and as a systems engineer for Bucks County Emergency Services. In addition to writing technical feature articles, Wayne covers FE’s Engineering R&D section.