US – Menu and vending machine calorie labeling rules

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration finalized two rules requiring that calorie information be listed on menus and menu boards in chain restaurants, similar retail food establishments and vending machines with 20 or more locations to provide consumers with more nutritional information about the foods they eat outside of the home. The rules are required … Continue reading US – Menu and vending machine calorie labeling rules

Thank God it’s Friday! Quick news from the food world (Week 45)

Here's my article selection of the week: EU -ย Environment Committee backs flexibility for EU countries to ban GMO crops, from European Parliament ENVI Committee: long-awaited draft plans to allow EU member states to restrict, or ban, the cultivation of crops containing genetically modified organisms on their own territory even if it is allowed at EU … Continue reading Thank God it’s Friday! Quick news from the food world (Week 45)