New York’s Silly Salt Warning Mandate Halted: New at Reason

Last fall, New York City’s health department adopted the nation’s first and only salt warning scheme. The rules, which apply only to chain restaurants, require warnings on most menu items that contain more than 2,300 mg sodium.

At the time of their adoption, Melissa Fleischut, president of the New York State Restaurant Association, called the rules “just the latest in a long litany of superfluous hoops that restaurants here in New York must jump through.”

But this week, an appellate court issued a stay that will prevent the city from implementing the rules, for the time being at least. Baylen Linnekin argues that they should be gone for good.

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