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Publish Calorie Counts, New York Fast Food Joints Told
From now on, fast food chains that have more than 15 restaurants nationwide, including MacDonald’s, Domino’s pizzas and TGI Friday’s, will have to clearly display how many calories are in their meals served across the city.
The move by city health officials, backed by New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, has been in the pipeline for nearly two years as part of the fight against obesity, which affected about 1.5 million people here in 2004.
Certain firms, including Starbucks, have already begun posting the calorie content of their meals on their packaging, but others, including McDonald’s and Dunkin’ Donuts, were more reluctant.
They and other restaurants are challenging the calorie order under the first amendment to the US constitution, which guarantees free speech and expression, and the clause which says the constitution overrides local laws.
At a federal district appeals court Tuesday in New York, the restaurants, represented by the New York State Restaurant Association (NYSRA), argued for a temporary suspension in the order to allow them to prepare their legal case.
The court at first agreed to a suspension, before reversing its position a few hours later. It rejected the NYSRA case, although it did delay the date from which restaurants can be fined for non-compliance from June 6 to July 18.
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