FDA Extends Deadline for Listing Calories on Menus

The Wall Street Journal (online registration required): The Food and Drug Administration is giving restaurants and other food purveyors an additional year to comply with new rules that require calorie counts on menus, a response to concerns by some food establishments that the requirements are confusing and broad.

The FDA said it would extend the deadline to December 2016 because it has been peppered with questions from restaurants and grocery stores about how the calorie-posting rules would apply to their specific situations. Some outlets also have expressed concerns about the need to develop software and other technology to provide caloric details, the agency said.

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