Editorial
Desk
| June 2, 2003, Monday
Dawdling
Over Food Labels
(NYT) 290 words
Late Edition - Final , Section A ,
Page 16 , Column 1
ABSTRACT
- Editorial supports proposed federal
legislation that would revise food labeling
rules to make it easier for people with food
allergies to identify product ingredients
(M) An estimated seven million Americans
suffer from food allergies. Some 30,000 of
them are rushed to hospital emergency rooms
each year because of severe allergic
reactions to something they ate.
Unfortunately, modest legislation designed
to lessen that toll remains stalled in
Congress.
The measure -- the Food Allergen Labeling
and Consumer Protection Act -- would revise
the nation's food labeling laws to make it
easier for people to identify peanuts, eggs
and other allergy-provoking ingredients,
called allergens. Introduced by Senator
Edward Kennedy, the bill cleared the
Committee on Health, Education, Labor and
Pensions last year with ample support from
Republicans -- including the present
chairman, Senator Judd Gregg of New
Hampshire. But now that the Republicans are
in charge, Mr. Gregg seems in no hurry to
revive the measure.
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