Restaurants Resources
American Heart Association, Policy Position Statement on Menu Labeling
This Web site has a policy position statement on menu labeling and resources that support calorie labeling for chain restaurants with standardized menus.
www.americanheart.org/presenter.jhtml?identifier=3054233
Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI), Kids Meals: Obesity on the Menu
In this report, CSPI examines children’s menus at a number of restaurants to determine their nutritional value and their impact on health.
http://www.cspinet.org/new/pdf/kidsmeals-report.pdf
Center for Science in the Public Interest, Menu Labeling Resources
This Web site offers a number of resources including fact sheets, polls and studies. These resources provide background information on menu labeling, provide consumer opinions of this practice and also provide case studies relevant to menu labeling.
www.cspinet.org/menulabeling/resources.html
County of Los Angeles Public Health Division of Chronic Disease and Injury Prevention, Menu Labeling as a Potential Strategy for Combating the Obesity Epidemic: A Health Impact Assessment
explores the severity of the obesity epidemic and proposes menu labeling as a way to battle it. According to the report, implementing menu labeling could prove effective in reversing the obesity trend in light of the fact that many restaurants do not currently provide nutritional information on menus and many consumers seriously underestimate the caloric content of restaurant items.
www.publichealthadvocacy.org/printable/CCPHA_LAPHmlaspotentialstrategy.pdf
Howard County, Maryland Government, Healthy Howard Initiative
Healthy Howard attempts to promote prevention and wellness techniques among Maryland’s Howard County residents. As part of the Healthy Restaurants Initiative, restaurants voluntarily agree to be trans fat-free, display nutritional and caloric information, offer at least two healthy menu options and pass food and hygiene inspections without substantive violations.
www.howardcountymd.gov/Health/HealthMain/Health_HealthyEatingEstablishments.htm
National Policy and Legal Analysis Network to Prevent Childhood Obesity (NPLAN), Model Menu Labeling Ordinance
If restaurants provide nutritional information on their menus, consumers can make informed choices about the food they eat and buy for their families. NPLAN developed this model menu labeling law for states and municipalities that wish to require certain types of restaurants to disclose product information to consumers. The basic language and logic contained in this model are drawn from menu labeling laws enacted in California, New York City, the City and County of San Francisco (now preempted by the California law), Washington’s King County, and Philadelphia; model menu labeling legislation developed by the Center for Science in the Public Interest (www.cspinet.org); and independent research.
www.montananapa.org/docs/SpringPlanningMtg/Model%20Policies/MenuLabelng_Ordinance_FINAL_090423_0.pdf
National Policy and Legal Analysis Network to Prevent Childhood Obesity (NPLAN), Preemption and the Obesity Epidemic: State and Local Menu Labeling Laws and the Nutrition Labeling and Education Act
Ongoing litigation in New York City provides an early glimpse of judicial interpretation of whether state and local menu labeling laws are preempted by the federal Nutrition Labeling and Education Act (NLEA). This article, which appeared in the Journal of Law, Medicine, and Ethics, explores these preemption issues, arguing that appropriately written and implemented menu labeling laws should not be preempted by the NLEA. The following provide abstracts of the article. Access to the full article may be purchased from the Journal of Law, Medicine, and Ethics.
http://www.nplanonline.org/nplan/review/preemption-and-obesity-epidemic-state-and-local-menu-labeling-laws-and-nutrition-labeling-and
www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/121543314/abstract
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