On 3/24/2014 8:14 PM, Guv Bob wrote:
"Frank" wrote in message ...
On 2/28/2014 3:03 PM, wrote:
The FDA estimates the cost of the new food labeling
requirements will be $2bil. Another unbelievable example
of what big govt costs us all. The changes? Increase
the font size of the calories. List the added sugar. And
make the serving sizes larger. The overall effect?
Meaningless, as few are paying any attention to them at all.
Anyone who does, the info you need is already there. Americans
will still be fat, it's just another $2bil down a rat hole.
I felt the same way when the law came down for restaurant chains to post calories. But now I'm glad they added this new info. Besides seeing the calorie count up front, it also gives a better idea of how much you food you actually get for similer sounding items. Like -- $5 and 500 calories for a "large" sandwich vs. $3 and 450 for "medium" sandwich.
I do some consulting on government regulations regarding chemicals.
I am familiar with an incident where a one word change on a label cost
one company $75,000 in labeling and paperwork changes.
How much of that $75K was your fee?
Probably less than $200. All I needed to do was change one word in a
couple of places in a few MSDS's. Editing was simple and most time spent
in putting in co. and public dB's. Most of the cost was in reprinting
literature and new labels including those on rail cars and trucks. It
was somebody in the clients company that gave me the dollar value for
the whole company.
This was only one company making maybe 25% of US production and then
there are distributors that would have to eat the cost of labeling their
products. So maybe the one word change cost industry less than one
million dollars.
The one word change had zero effect on improving the product's safety.