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Virginia senators split on food labeling bills after weeks of debate over religious and allergy notices
Summary
Senators on the Senate Education and Health Committee advanced two bills requiring restaurants to disclose pork content and to post food-allergy guidance in multiple languages, removing proposed penalties and narrowing requirements after debate.
Senators on the Senate Education and Health Committee advanced separate but related bills aimed at giving restaurant patrons clearer information about ingredients and food-allergy procedures.
The committee approved amendments and later reported Senate Bill 1133, carried for the town of Herndon, which asks restaurants and caterers to place a conspicuous notice next to or under menu items that contain pork products. The committee removed a penalty provision and revised wording to ask that restaurants "make all reasonable efforts" to provide the requested information rather than imposing fines for inadvertent errors. The motion to report SB 1133 as amended passed in committee and the measure was recorded as reported as amended.
The committee also reported Senate Bill 1350, which would require the State Department of Health to post a food-allergy notice in English and in the six most-spoken languages on its website and would require…
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