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THE DAILY ASTORIAN • MONDAY, MARCH 28, 2016
Looking for calorie labels on menus? Not until 2017
By MARY CLARE
JALONICK
Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Won-
dering how many calories
are in that hamburger? Chain
restaurants still don’t have to
tell you, despite a 6-year-old
law requiring calorie labels on
menus.
Passed as part of the health
care overhaul in 2010, the
rules will eventually require
restaurants and other establish-
ments that sell prepared foods
and have 20 or more locations
to post the calorie content of
food “clearly and conspicu-
ously” on their menus, menu
boards and displays.
This month, the Food and
Drug Administration said it
will delay the rules — again
— until 2017.
The years of delays have
come as supermarkets, conve-
nience stores and other retail-
ers that are covered by the rules
but never wanted to be part of
the law have ¿ercely lobbied
against them. The move will
leave the ¿nal step to a new
president, despite the Obama
administration’s staunch sup-
port of menu labeling and other
food policy to help Americans
eat more healthfully. And it
will give opponents more time
to gather support for legisla-
tion that would roll back some
of the requirements.
Restaurants and other
retailers originally had until
the end of 2015 to comply.
Last summer, the FDA pushed
that deadline back to the end of
2016. This month, they pushed
the deadline back again.
Grocery stores and con-
venience stores have said the
rules would be more burden-
some for them than they would
be for restaurants, which typi-
cally have more limited offer-
ings. Pizza chains like Dom-
ino’s have also opposed the
rules, saying they don’t make
sense for companies that take
most of their orders online.
Margo Wootan is a lobbyist
at the Center for Science and
the Public Interest who was
part of the original coalition
and has pushed for the super-
markets to be included. She
says she is frustrated that con-
sumers are still waiting for the
calorie information.
“Not only is it simple and
Mark Lennihan/AP Photo
Items on the breakfast menu, including the calories, are
posted at a McDonald’s restaurant in New York.
straightforward but so many
states and localities have
already done this,” she said.
Already in a few places
Menu labeling is already
required in a handful of places,
including Vermont, New York
City and Montgomery County,
Maryland. But several other
states put off their laws in antic-
ipation of the federal rules.
California, for example,
passed a law in 2008 but put
that on hold after the federal
standards became law in 2010.
Today, menu labeling still isn’t
enforced there.
“We are very frustrated,”
says Harold Goldstein of the
California Center for Public
Health Advocacy. “We call
on the federal government to
issue its regulations immedi-
ately and allow both state and
federal law to go into effect.”
The latest delay came after
Congress included language
in a year-end spending bill in
December that allowed FDA
to put off the December 2016
date until a year after it pub-
lishes the ¿nal guidance for
retailers who have to put the
rules in place. This month, the
agency said it is still working
on those guidelines.
“The FDA cannot spec-
ulate on the timing on when
¿nal guidance will be issued,”
said spokeswoman Lauren
Kotwicki.
Retailers have said com-
pliance takes time. Robert
Rosado of the Food Market-
ing Institute, an association
that represents grocery stores,
said the delays only seem fair
as some of the rules are com-
plicated. In grocery stores, for
example, the labeling rules
apply to prepared foods, but
exclude those that are typically
intended for more than one
person. That could mean cut
fruit or other foods would be
labeled in a salad bar, but not
in a larger container for sale.
“The anxiety is that they’re
going to get it wrong,” Rosado
said. “Maybe the font size isn’t
right for their label or they
rounded the calorie count the
wrong way.”
The Food Marketing Insti-
tute is backing legislation that
passed the House earlier this
year that would make it easier
for some businesses to com-
ply with the rules. It would
narrow labeling requirements
for supermarkets by allowing
stores to use a menu or menu
board in a prepared foods area
instead of putting labels on
individual items. It would also
allow restaurants like pizza
chains that receive most of their
orders remotely to post calories
online instead of at the retail
location. The bill also seeks
to ensure that establishments
aren’t punished for mislabeling
due to inadvertent human error.
The House bill passed in
February with some Demo-
cratic support, but the Senate
has yet to move on the issue.
The Food Marketing Institute,
pizza companies and other
groups which have pushed
back on the rules are working
to gather more support.
Meanwhile, as Washing-
ton delays, some companies
have already put the labeling
in place. Consumers can ¿nd
the labels by individual items
on menu boards at McDon-
alds, Panera, Starbucks and Au
Bon Pain. Others are waiting
for the deadline.
Known to millions of view-
ers simply as “Mother Angel-
ica,” the founder of the Eter-
nal Word Television Network
died Easter Sunday at the rural
Alabama monastery where she
lived about 45 miles north of
Birmingham, according to
EWTN Chairman and Chief
Executive Of¿cer Michael P.
Warsaw.
“Mother has always, and
will always, personify EWTN,
the Network which she
founded. In the face of sick-
ness and long-suffering trials,
Mother’s example of joy and
prayerful perseverance exem-
pli¿ed the Franciscan spirit she
held so dear. We thank God for
Mother Angelica and for the
gift of her extraordinary life,”
Warsaw said in a news release
late Sunday.
Mother Angelica had been
in declining health since suf-
fering a severe cerebral hemor-
rhage on Christmas Eve 2001.
She never regained her full
speaking ability and had other,
less-severe strokes through the
years.
Bedridden for months,
Mother Angelica was placed
on a feeding tube this fall as
her health slowly declined,
fellow nuns at Our Lady of
the Angels Monastery said in
an announcement released in
November.
NATION/WORLD IN BRIEF
The Associated Press
Death toll in
Pakistan bombing
reaches 70
LAHORE, Pakistan —
The death toll from a mas-
sive suicide bombing targeting
Christians gathered on Easter
in the eastern Pakistani city of
Lahore rose to 70 on Monday
as the country started observ-
ing a three-day mourning
period following the attack.
Meanwhile, in the capi-
tal of Islamabad, riots erupted
for a second day when extrem-
ists who have been staging a
protest since Sunday surged
toward the Parliament and
other key buildings in the city
center. The demonstrators set
cars on ¿re, demanding that
the authorities impose Islamic
law or Sharia. The army was
again deployed to subdue the
rioters.
The Lahore bombing,
which was claimed by a break-
away Taliban faction that has
publicly supported the Islamic
State group, took place in a
park, crowded with many fam-
ilies with children celebrating
the holiday on Sunday. Many
women and children were
killed and at least 300 people
were wounded.
The attack underscored
both the precarious position of
Pakistan’s minorities and the
fact that the militants are still
capable of staging wide-scale
assaults despite a months-long
military offensive targeting
their hideouts and safe havens
in remote tribal areas.
Ahsanullah Ahsan,
a
spokesman for the breakaway
Taliban faction, Jamaat-ul-Ah-
rar told The Associated Press
late Sunday that the suicide
bomber deliberately targeted
the Christian community cele-
brating Easter. Ahsan said the
attack also meant to protest
Pakistan’s military operation in
the tribal regions.
Test scheduled
for reopening of
Brussels airport
BRUSSELS — A week
after devastating suicide bomb
attacks, Brussels Airport will
test its capacity to partially
resume passenger service. But
it’s too early to say when ser-
vice might actually resume, an
airport of¿cial said Monday.
Florence Muls, the airport’s
external communications man-
ager, said 800 staff members
on Tuesday will test temporary
infrastructure and new arrange-
ments designed for passenger
check-in. The Belgian govern-
ment must approve the new
system, Muls said, before Brus-
sels Airport can resume han-
dling passenger traf¿c.
Two suicide bombers on
March 22 caused great damage
to the airport’s departure hall,
and along with another sui-
cide bomber who blew himself
up on a Brussels subway train,
killed at least 31 people and
injured some 270.
Trump ready to
visit Wisconsin,
but Cruz has lead
OSHKOSH, Wisconsin —
Donald Trump is planning to
make his ¿rst campaign visit to
Wisconsin on Tuesday, where
the upcoming Republican pres-
idential primary could mark a
turning point in the unpredict-
able GOP race.
But rival Ted Cruz has got-
ten a jumpstart on the contest,
racking up inÀuential endorse-
ments, campaigning in key
regions and supported by bull-
ish advertising campaign.
A solid Cruz win in Wiscon-
sin would narrow Trump’s path
to the nomination, heap pres-
sure on the billionaire to sweep
the remaining winner-take-
all primaries this spring, and
increase the chances of a con-
tested party convention in July.
“The results in Wisconsin
will impact signi¿cantly the pri-
maries to come,” Cruz told The
Associated Press after a rally in
Oshkosh Friday. “Wisconsin, I
believe, will play a critical role
continuing to unify Republi-
cans behind our campaign. The
only way to beat Donald Trump
is with unity.”
Cruz is positioning himself
to win Wisconsin, next Tues-
day’s only contest, and the ¿rst
primary since he began collect-
ing the backing of establishment
Republicans, such as former
Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, adamant
about eliminating Trump.
Mother Angelica
has died at 92
HANCEVILLE, Ala. —
Mother Mary Angelica, a
folksy Roman Catholic nun
who used a monastery garage
to begin a television ministry
that grew into a global religious
media empire, has died. She
was 92.
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Volcano erupts
in southwest
Alaska; sends
ash 20,000 feet
ANCHORAGE, Alaska —
The U.S. Geological Survey
reports that a volcano on Alas-
ka’s Aleutian Islands erupted
Sunday afternoon and sent ash
20,000 feet into the air.
The agency says the Pav-
lof Volcano, which is about 600
miles southwest of Anchor-
age, erupted at 4:18 p.m. local
time. The agency says the erup-
tion also led to tremors on the
ground.
The USGS has raised the
volcano alert level to “Warn-
ing” and the aviation warning
to “Red.”
The agency says the vol-
cano, which is about 4.4 miles
in diameter, has had 40 known
eruptions and “is one of the
most consistently active volca-
noes in the Aleutian arc.”
The USGS says that during
a previous eruption in 2013, ash
plumes rose 27,000 feet. Other
eruptions have generated ash
plumes as high as 49,000 feet.
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