Health Policy Brief（卫生政策简报）.pdf

h e a lt h p o l i c y b r i e f w w w. h e a lt h a f fa i r s . o r g 1 Health Policy Brief u p d at e d j u ly 1 3 , 2 0 1 5 The FDA’s Menu-Labeling Rule. Many restaurants will soon be required to list the calorie count of the food they sell. New York City began mandating calorie what’s the issue? counts of chain restaurant food in 2007. The The Affordable Care Act (ACA) mandated that new national rules were backed by the restau- many chain restaurants and other “similar” rant industry’s trade association, the National food establishments list the calorie count of Restaurant Association, in an effort to achieve the food they sell. The requirement will take uniformity nationwide and to avoid a growing effect nationwide in December 2016, more patchwork of separate state and municipal than six and a half years after the ACA became regulations. law. So far, most studies, including a 2015 meta- The regulations, promulgated by the Food analysis, show that providing menu nutrition and D