Council approves law on restaurant labeling
June 25, 2009
A month after passing regulations calling for checking the body mass index of all school children in Massachusetts, the state Public Health Council has approved rules that require major chain restaurants to provide customers with calorie information regarding items on their menus.
The Department of Public Health estimates that 50 restaurants with 5,000 locations in Massachusetts will need to comply with the new requirements, which mandate that calorie content details be made available either on a menu board or on the restaurant’s menus.
The rules will take effect in November 2010 in order to give local health departments and restaurants time to prepare.
The rules mirror laws already in place in California and New York.
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