Groups Oppose Peru FTA -- Nutrition Labeling Laws Permitted, Judge Finds
 
Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2007 16:48:43 -0500 (CDT)

Sept. 11, 2007

As Peru NAFTA Expansion Vote Looms, Opposition Grows

Not One Union, Consumer, Latino Civil Rights, Environmental, Family Farm or Faith Group Supports 'Modified' Peru Free Trade Agreement

WASHINGTON, D.C. - A growing number of constituency groups key to the Democratic base are calling on Congress to oppose a proposed free trade agreement (FTA) that would extend the NAFTA-CAFTA model to Peru, Public Citizen said today, as the Senate Finance Committee held a hearing on the pact. 

READ the entire press release at http://www.citizen.org/pressroom/release.cfm?ID=2508.

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States, Cities May Require Nutritional Labeling at Restaurants, Judge Finds

Ruling Means New York City May Redraft Its Regulation to Avoid Pre-emption by Federal Law

WASHINGTON, D.C.?A federal judge has ruled that cities and states are free to require restaurants to provide calorie counts and other nutrition information, but that in one idiosyncratic way, New York City's regulation is pre-empted, or trumped, by federal law. The Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI) and Public Citizen say that the city may avoid such pre-emption by making menu labeling mandatory for all chain restaurants with 10 or more outlets, such as McDonald's, and by not making it contingent on whether a restaurant already makes some nutrition information available voluntarily.

READ the entire press release at http://www.citizen.org/pressroom/release.cfm?ID=2509.

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