The following opinion piece by Leslie Sarasin, president and CEO of Food Marketing
Institute and Peter Larkin, president and CEO of National Grocers Association appeared in Supermarket News on April 19, 2016.
From family dinners to neighborhood potlucks, food has always been at the center of such gatherings, making grocery stores an important partner in every community. The hundreds of grocers on Capitol Hill for the joint Day in Washington meeting this week take pride in providing customized and local items that reflect the communities in which they operate, but a new rule mandated by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) threatens to impose burdensome and costly regulations on grocers, and ultimately impacts their store operations and how they serve their customers.
As part of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), the chain restaurant industry sought legislation to create one national restaurant menu labeling standard instead of the 27 different state/local ones they were facing. Grocery stores do not typically have menus or menu boards — except for a very few items — and grocery stores were not covered by these laws and had no role in designing the solution.
For the full article, please visit Supermarket News.
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