Nutrition Labels On Resto Food Menus?

Posted by Prudence on January 3, 2008 · Leave a Comment

Maybe it wonâ€™t be long before you see a menu board, such as the one depicted above, setup in many major restaurants in the country.

Marikina Representative Marcelino Teodoro has filed a bill in the House of Representatives that would require restaurants to put nutrition information on their products.Â The requirement is covered by House Bill 2939 and is hoped to give encouragement to Filipinos to be aware of healthy food choices.

This move isnâ€™t particularly new.Â Though nutritional labeling of food products have been in existence in various parts of the U.S. in the 1940â€™s, the common nutritional labeling that you see in supermarket products have been seen since the 1990â€™s.Â And in 1993, the U.S. Food and Drug administration has proposed some rules that would require restaurants to backup any nutritional claim in their menus.Â And last August 2005, in their ongoing battle against Americaâ€™s number 1 killer, heart disease, New York City Health Department had urged restaurants to cease using trans fat in cooking their food.Â Starbucks had announced that, by the end of year 2007, there would be no trans fat in all their company-operated and licensed stores in the U.S., Alaska, and Canada.Â In addition to that, McDonaldâ€™s had even joined in the health bandwagon by promising to put nutritional labels on individual boxes of their products and also, by offering healthier alternatives like Caesar salad with grilled chicken.

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