In what is perceived as a step backward in the fight for full consumer awareness, the US House of Representatives recently passed HR 2017, a law which could deny consumers basic caloric information on menu items while allowing food establishment to make up their own serving sizes. Writer Nancy Fink Huehnergarth in her Forbes.com article, the “Common Sense Nutritional Disclosure Act” could weaken the still-unimplemented national menu labeling law passed last 2010.
