Grabbing a midafternoon snack from the company vending machine or cafeteria soon will come with a side of regulation, or at the very least will be easier to enter into calorie-counting apps. According to Diane Romza-Kutz and Fredric Roth V of Husch Blackwell, new U.S. Food and Drug Administration rules, created in response to the Affordable Care Act, will require the calorie content of foods to be posted in certain vending machines and food outlets.
“Because of the way in which these categories are defined, a massive amount of companies will be affected,” say the authors, who note the legislation is worded in such a way that it leaves many companies unsure if it’s applicable to them. Romza-Kutz and Roth also say that many affected companies, such as grocery stores, drug stores, fast-food restaurants and local small-business restaurant chains, have rarely dealt with FDA regulations before.
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