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Senate committee advances limits on calories, sodium and added sugar for chain children’s meals
Summary
Senate Bill 1939, as amended, was released by the committee. The amendments set numeric nutritional limits for children’s meals sold by chain restaurants, add training and website-exemption provisions, and reduce penalty levels compared with the original draft.
The Senate Health Committee released an amended bill requiring certain nutritional standards for children’s meals sold by chain restaurants with 20 or more locations.
Under the committee amendments read into the record, a children's meal sold by an owner or operator of a chain restaurant must contain no more than 550 calories per serving, no more than 700 milligrams of sodium, no more than 15 grams of added sugars, a limit on saturated fat expressed as a percentage (as reflected in the committee language), and 0 grams of trans fat. The beverage provision was narrowed: a…
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