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                                <ns0:ActionText>INTRODUCED</ns0:ActionText>
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                <ns0:AuthorText authorType="LEAD_AUTHOR">Introduced by Senator Weber Pierson</ns0:AuthorText>
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                <ns0:Title> An act relating to restaurant menus. </ns0:Title>
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                        <ns0:Subject>Restaurant menus: sugar warnings. </ns0:Subject>
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                        <html:p>Existing law, the California Retail Food Code, establishes uniform health and sanitation standards for, and provides for regulation by the State Department of Public Health of, retail food facilities, and requires local health agencies to enforce those provisions. Existing law requires certain food facilities to provide written notification of the major food allergens that the food facility knows or reasonably should know are contained as an ingredient in each menu item, either directly on its menu or in a digital format, as specified.</html:p>
                        <html:p>This bill would state the intent of the Legislature to require labeling on restaurant menus for beverages containing more than 50% of the recommended daily reference value for sugar.</html:p>
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                                <html:p>It is the intent of the Legislature to require labeling on restaurant menus for beverages containing more than 50 percent of the recommended daily reference value for sugar. </html:p>
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