Obama Administration Goes After Salt

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Free Beacon:

The Obama administration is setting sodium limits for nearly every food imaginable, the latest in a series of efforts to change how Americans eat.

 

The voluntary standards are meant to nudge restaurants and the food industry into reducing the amount of sodium in foods they serve. And the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is offering its preferred salt amounts for everything from Gouda cheese to fish jerky.

 

The administration said the purpose of the sodium limits are to “support increased food choice.”

 

“Every day, Americans are getting too much sodium in their diet, and the majority comes from processed and prepared foods, not the salt shaker,” the FDA said. “That is why we have developed draft guidance with sodium reduction targets to encourage industry to gradually reduce sodium in a wide range of foods.”

 

The FDA has trained its targets on common foods such as French Fries, pizza, sandwiches, deli meats, pasta dishes, snacks, breads, and rolls. But the administration did not stop there, coming up with a list of 150 categories of food that restaurants should seek to reduce their sodium amounts.

 

The administration came up with sodium reductions for olives in brine or water; stuffed olives and olives in oil or sauce; and nut butters and seed pastes, including tahini. There are standards for canned soup, dry mix soup, frozen soup, and refrigerated soup.

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Obamacare is Coming After Your Craft Beer

 

Listen up Bernie Sanders supporting hipsters: Obamacare is coming for your craft beer.

 

According to the Brewer's Association, craft brewing contributed $55.7 billion to the U.S. economy and provided more than 440,000 jobs in 2014, a significant impact in a still sluggish economy.

 

Small and independent American craft brewers contributed $55.7 billion to the U.S. economy in 2014. The figure is derived from the total impact of beer brewed by craft brewers as it moves through the three-tier system (breweries, wholesalers and retailers), as well as all non-beer products like food and merchandise that brewpub restaurants and brewery taprooms sell.

 

But a regulation buried in Obamacare could change craft brewing and not for the better. From Americans For Tax Reform:

 

Amidst Obamacare’s 3,000 pages lies a regulation that may squeeze craft beer brewers out of business. Why would federal healthcare bureaucrats want to meddle in this thriving industry? Well, regulators claim that American consumers are not healthy because they are blissfully unaware of the amount of calories in beer.

 

http://townhall.com/tipsheet/katiepavlich/2016/05/31/obamacare-is-coming-after-your-beer-n2171764