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News Image: Text decoration - bulletRestaurants Image: Text decoration - bulletApril 1, 2011

NCCR Welcomes Expected FDA Proposal on Menu Labeling
For Immediate Release
Contact: J. Craig Shearman (202) 626-8134
shearmanc@nrf.com

NCCR Welcomes Expected FDA Proposal on Menu Labeling

WASHINGTON, April 1, 2011 – The National Council of Chain Restaurants welcomed the completion of proposed regulations on menu labeling in chain restaurants expected to be issued later today by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.

"We look forward to reviewing the FDA’s proposal in detail over the coming days,” NCCR Vice President Scott Vinson said. “The industry has been and remains fully supportive of menu labeling, and wants to ensure it is done in the most effective way possible for our customers as well as for our companies and small business franchisees. We’ve been sharing with the FDA over the last several months the chain industry’s perspective on the best way to create a flexible, workable framework for menu labeling.  We hope our review shows that the proposed regulations reflect this work.”

“From quick-service to home delivery to casual dining, our member restaurants interact with millions of consumers every day and have a keen awareness about how the public receives, processes and uses nutritional information,” Vinson said. “Our input has helped balance the goals of providing consumers with the nutritional information they want with the physical realities of menus and menu boards.  We look forward to continuing our constructive role in the process to ensure a workable approach is achieved."

The FDA is expected late this afternoon to issue proposed regulations required to implement menu labeling provisions included in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act health care reform law enacted in 2010. The FDA will accept comments on the proposal for 60 days, and is expected to issue final regulations by the end of the year.

The National Council of Chain Restaurants is the leading trade association exclusively representing chain restaurant companies.  For more than 40 years, NCCR has worked to advance sound public policy that best serves the interests of restaurant businesses and the millions of people they employ. NCCR members include many of the country’s most well-respected quick-service and casual-dining establishments. NCCR is a division of the National Retail Federation, the world's largest retail trade group. www.nccr.net

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