Another distraction, more regulations from Obamacare to blame restaurants. Violation carries civil and criminal penalties up to 1,000 fine and one year in prison or both. Impossible to comply with rules that impose significant compliance costs without achieving any meaningful improvement in consumer education. Yet Monsanto has its own Monsanto protection act which bans the courts from stopping the sale of genetically modified seeds. GMO a plant or animal that has been genetically engineered with DNA from bacteria, viruses or other plants or animals. Weather we like it or not we are eating genetically manipulated food without consent. Seriously, I worked in restaurants, 300 pages of regulations for a menu is junk. Forcing many restaurants out of business and placing a drain on the economy. While the real criminal is protected and gains even more control. Typical of the communist tyrant BHO administration.

This bill is introduced and heavily supported by the House Republicans, but it is a bipartisan supported bill because it is a common sense solution to the overly complex regulations the Food and Drug Administration finalized in November 2014. The Common Sense Nutrition Disclosure Act passed the House in the 114th Congress by a strong bipartisan vote of 266-144. This bill ensures that consumers continue to have access to important nutritional information, while also providing flexibility for businesses to use and leverage 21st Century technology to display the information. The act does not diminish the amount of nutritional information that must be provided by restaurants and retailers and instead only clarifies the unworkable and overly complex FDA regulations finalized in November 2014. Immediate enactment of the Common Sense Nutrition Disclosure Act reconciles the FDA’s one-size-fits-all regulation ahead of its full compliance date of May 5, 2017 – a mere three months away. A failure to fix the regulation will force America’s business owners to begin preparation for compliance – if they have not been forced to do so already – to avoid excessive civil and criminal penalties. That compliance comes at a high cost, especially for small business owners. It’s estimated that this regulation will cost nearly $1 billion – and that’s just for grocers. Coupled with the predicted 14.5 million hours of paperwork, this is one of the most expensive and onerous regulations of the Obama administration. I am particularly supportive of this bill because of the bipartisan way in which it has been handled and because it demonstrates that the Obama administration, like all administrations before it had good ideas, but faulty execution. That faulty execution was in part due to a failure on the part of Republicans to engage in the process of governing by doing their job to ADVISE and consent. This bill also offers an excellent example of how legislators can work together for the good of the American people. With the passage of every bill like this, developed through bipartisan negotiations, our legislators are developing proper connections to each other and to the members of the opposition in both legislative bodies. Success on smaller bills can form the basis for genuine the openness and collegiality that can support lawmakers when they are faced with more partisan issues. I say two thumbs up 👍 👍for this effort!

This is a burden on business and not needed, maybe 1 out of 10 read the labels we have now