US Nutritional Fact Label
Vending machines are now required to carry nutritional labels for every product offered, due to new "regulations" included in the law. It's not enough that each product itself carry such labels; each machine has to have them as well.
Requiring calorie information to be displayed on roughly 5 million vending machines nationwide will help consumers make healthier choices, says the Food and Drug Administration, which is expected to release final rules early next year. It estimates the cost to the vending machine industry at $25.8 million initially and $24 million per year after that, but says if just .02 percent of obese adults ate 100 fewer calories a week, the savings to the health care system would be at least that great.
Sorry, bureaucrats, but that's pure, unadulterated baloney - and there's no nutrition label on what you're trying to feed us. Nobody buying a pack of Skittles is reading your stupid labels; hell, most of us don't read the labels at the grocery store, and nobody reads them on restaurant menus, either. You bureaucrats better get a label on that baloney. And that smoke you're blowing about health care system savings isn't all that healthy, either.
A 2011 study in New York found that only one in six customers looked at the information, but those who did generally ordered about 100 fewer calories. A more recent study in Philadelphia found no difference in calories purchased after the city's labeling law took effect.
A hundred calories ore or less in a day makes zero difference; let alone that stupid claim that a hundred less a week will save $25 million. And what do they care, anyway? They're government drones. Barry spent more than $25 million on barricades.
It's just another ploy to kill more jobs.
