Label That Menu Launches Campaign

(via Inside Today's Bulletin)

Philadelphia - This fall, City Council will have to vote on a bill that would change the look of fast-food menus throughout the city.

As part of what some called Menu Labeling Action Day, a group of health advocates joined with city lawmakers in support of pending legislation that would require fast-food restaurants to post the caloric intake of food on their menus.

Early February, City Councilwoman Blondell Reynolds Brown, D, introduced a bill that would alter the city's health code and require chain restaurants and retail food establishments to make available certain nutritional information next to menu items.

Yesterday, the Label That Menu Coalition lobbied members of City Council for the passing of the measure. Similar bills have been passed in California, Oregon and New York.
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If passed, the legislation would enforce all chain restaurants throughout the city, with 15 or more locations, to post the caloric information.