Saturday, November 23, 2013

Food Police Will Soon Hit Businesses with Pointless Regulations

Via avordvet

 

A. Barton Hinkle, a Richmond Times-Dispatch columnist and Reason magazine contributor, wrote a fascinating and chilling column this week about the Food and Drug Administration expensive and burdensome new menu labeling scheme.

The regulations will “dictate the disclosure of calorie counts for foods sold in restaurants, grocery stores, delis, bakeries, coffee shops, and even gas stations,” according to Hinkle. And those businesses will pay a hefty price to comply with the policy. The federal government figures the rules will “cost more than $1 billion and require more than 14.5 million hours of labor to meet.”

The calorie posting regulations, which are expected to go into effect any day, have been debated for three years. Why? Because it’s confusing as hell to try to figure out how to force business owners to post the calorie count for custom made food orders.

Hinkle writes:

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4 comments:

  1. Isn't it about time people just started saying NO?

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  2. This could be stopped if Americans still had any balls. All the restaurant association and the grocers association would have to do is declare at 12:01 AM Friday December 1 every grocery store and restaurant in the nation would close until 6:00AM Monday December 4. Also announce these closings would continue every weekend until the regulation was repealed. Problem solved. Sadly this will never happen we are now a nation of sheep.

    Badger

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