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Ohio House Ag Committee holds first hearing on bill requiring allergen disclosures at food service operations
Summary
Representatives offered sponsor testimony on House Bill 364, which would require restaurants and food vendors to disclose presence of major allergens; sponsors said the measure is intended to improve safety and transparency and that an amendment to add sodium will be filed.
Chair Klopfenstein convened the Ohio House Agriculture Committee for a first hearing on House Bill 364, which would require food-service operations to disclose whether menu items contain any of eight major allergens. Representative Young, the bill’s sponsor, and a co-sponsor identified in committee records spoke in favor of the measure and answered committee questions.
Representative Young told the committee the bill “is a simple and common sense proposal” that “ensures that restaurants and food vendors clearly identify whether any of these 8 major allergens, milk, eggs, fish, crustaceans, shellfish, tree nuts, peanuts, wheat,…
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