The FDA’s Menu-Labeling Mandate Should Be Trashed: New at Reason

Last week, the U.S. House of Representatives voted 266-144 in favor of the Common Sense Nutrition Disclosure Act of 2015. The bill now heads to the Senate for consideration.

If passed, the bill would amend a host of menu-labeling rules that were adopted by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) under the Affordable Care Act (more commonly known as Obamacare).

While the Obamacare labeling mandate had been envisioned to apply to chain restaurants with 20 or more locations in the United States, including McDonald’s, TGI Fridays, and Ruth’s Chris Steakhouse, the FDA rules cast a far wider net. Those rules the FDA drafted cover seemingly every sort of chain that serves food. As Baylen Linnekin explains, the implementation of the rules has been a complete mess. Congress should just scrap it entirely, but it won’t.

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