FDA Announces Forthcoming Menu-Labeling Guidance

U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Commissioner Scott
Gottlieb has announced that the agency will provide guidance on
menu-labeling requirements before the end of 2017 in advance of
the May 2018 compliance date.

“This additional guidance will address concerns that were raised
about challenges establishments faced in understanding how to
meet their obligations under the new regulations,” Gottlieb wrote
in an August 25, 2017, statement. “We have been diligently
working to address the comments we received, and to establish a
sustainable framework for enabling establishments to effectively
meet the new menu labeling provisions. These new policy steps
should allow covered establishments to implement the
requirements by next year’s compliance date.”

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