San Francisco supervisors who backed a tax on soda and other sugar-sweetened beverages in the have taken up a different strategy in their fight against sugar by proposing legislations that would make the city the first to require warning labels on advertising for these type of beverages, according to reports from the San Francisco Chronicle.
In a close vote, the San Francisco Board of Supervisors approved placing a two-cent-per-ounce tax on sugar-sweetened beverages on the ballot for the upcoming November election, according to the Associated Press.
In what would likely be one of the toughest tests for the industry, the city of Berkeley, CA has authorized a soda tax to be put on the ballot in November.
