November 10/Washington/Health & Beauty Close-Up -- A notice published by the Food and Drug Administration in the November 5 Federal Register estimates that the nation's vending industry will need to spend 14 million hours annually to comply with proposed calorie disclosure regulations, National Automatic Merchandising Association (NAMA) senior vice president of Government Affairs Ned Monroe, CAE announced.
In discussing the FDA report Monroe said, "Our industry has always understood that consumers need access to product nutritional information, but requiring an industry to invest 14 million hours annually is absurd and sure to kill jobs. We are opposed to the colossal burden these regulations impose on our industry and this report just confirms what an enormous and unfair burden it truly is."