Rep. Charlie Brown’s HB 1207 which would require food establishment with 20 or more locations in Indiana to make certain nutritional information available was defeated on a 48 – 48 vote. Since it did not fail by more than 50 votes, I believe it is still eligible for reconsideration if Rep. Brown can figure out how to flip a couple of votes. But, I imagine this sort of bill would face tough sledding in the Senate in any case.
Unfortunate that this bill did not pass; hopefully, it will get a second go round. Informed consent is always a good thing, imo. If anything, I like to see improvements in the bill to include restaurants without the 10 locations exemption. Even for a small operation, nutritional analysis software can be cost effectively acquired and can be used in-house. If that’s a sticking point for those opposed, they should inform themselves better.
I finally see why this cld be a bad thing, a restaurant here has the “nutritional” information on their menu, and I’ll never go back. I was shocked at the calories and sodium.
I don’t have a problem with requiring chains to have nutrtion information available. A lot of the chain restaurants already have the nutritional analysis available–it just isn’t on their menus.
I had to deal with a lot of mom and pop food establishments in a previous job. Most of them simply would not do the nutritional analysis. Many of the people who run these establishments do not have any computer experience and don’t have access to computers.