It Takes Guts to Fight Obesity

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Added by Gaby on September 8, 2010 at 4:06pm — No Comments

New menu and vending machines labeling requirements.

The president signed the health care reform legislation law. Also on March 23.2010 the affordable care act became law. The act requires vending machines operators who owns or operate 20 or more vending machines to disclose calorie content for certain items. FDA requires by law to issue regulations to carry out these provisions by March 23.2011.

Added by Gaby on August 26, 2010 at 12:32pm — No Comments

SB1420

My summer project was to follow up on SB 1420. I wanted to make sure the restaurants are meeting their requirments. I also wrote about each restaurants and my experience. The SB1420 means that every restaurants in california should have a calories brochure about their food. They also should have it on thier menu but it wont be affected untill January 1.2011. Over 17,000 restaurants will be affecected by the SB1420. Theres two phases to this. On July 1.2009 -…

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Added by Gaby on August 26, 2010 at 11:07am — No Comments

Egg Recall

One of the recent outbreak is:

1300 americans had an outbreak of salmonella. The reason why commissioner Margaret Hamburg certainly admitted that FDA and USDA didnt have the resources to do that kind of inspection.

On July 9.2010 they had a new regulation requring egg producers with more than 3,000 hens to take measure…

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Added by Gaby on August 24, 2010 at 10:49am — 2 Comments