US Congress Senate Bill 3574 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 13)
Status: Introduced on September 19 2012 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2012-09-19 - Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
Pending: Senate Health, Education, Labor, And Pensions Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

Common Sense Nutrition Disclosure Act of 2012 - Amends the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to revise the nutritional information that restaurants and retail food establishments must disclose. Requires the nutrient content disclosure statement on the menu or menu board to include: (1) the number of calories contained in the whole product; (2) the number of servings and number of calories per serving; or (3) the number of calories per the common unit division of the product, such as for a multi-serving item that is typically divided before presentation to the consumer. Permits such information to be provided by a remote-access menu, such as through the internet, for food establishments where the majority of orders are placed by customers who are off-premises at the time the order is placed. Defines “reasonable basis” for a restaurant or similar food establishment’s nutrient content disclosures to mean that the nutrient disclosure is within acceptable allowances for variation in nutrient content, which shall include allowances for variations in serving size, inadvertent human error in formulation of menu items, and variations in ingredients. Sets forth the methods a restaurant or similar food establishment may use to determine nutritional content for disclosure, including ranges, averages, individual labeling of flavors or components, or labeling of one preset standard build. Defines "preset standard build" as the finished version of a menu item most commonly ordered by consumers. Applies the nutritional disclosure requirements to retail food establishments that derive more than 50% of their total revenue from the sale of food.

Common Sense Nutrition Disclosure Act of 2012

Sen. Roy Blunt [R-MO]	Sen. Lamar Alexander [R-TN]	Sen. John Barrasso [R-WY]	Sen. John Boozman [R-AR]
Sen. Scott Brown [R-MA]	Sen. Saxby Chambliss [R-GA]	Sen. Tom Coburn [R-OK]	Sen. Thad Cochran [R-MS]
Sen. Susan Collins [R-ME]	Sen. Michael Enzi [R-WY]	Sen. Mike Johanns [R-NE]	Sen. Jerry Moran [R-KS]
Sen. John Thune [R-SD]

Date	Chamber	Action
2012-09-19	Senate	Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.

HB6174 (Same As) 2012-07-27 - Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.congress.gov/bill/112th-congress/senate-bill/3574/all-info
Text	https://www.congress.gov/112/bills/s3574/BILLS-112s3574is.pdf