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Henry Waxman: “It does because there was no nutritional labeling at the State level. It had been done by the industry voluntarily, and…”

On the recordMarch 2, 2006
It does because there was no nutritional labeling at the State level. It had been done by the industry voluntarily, and they had different kinds of labels, and it was not in a way that we could compare the calorie content, the carbohydrate content, the fat content. So we decided that since this was all under Federal jurisdiction anyway, we ought to standardize the labeling. It was not an issue of usurping the power from the States because the States look to the FDA to make that decision.
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Henry Waxman
Democratic · California

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