NEW YORK, Sept. 10 (UPI) — New York City restaurants must begin putting warnings on menu items with high salt content, the city’s health board said Wednesday.
The New York City Health Board voted to require chain restaurants to feature a black triangle with a saltshaker icon next to any menu item that has more than 2,300 milligrams of sodium, which is on the high end of what the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommends as a daily limit.
The warnings will accompany a written caution saying the consumption of large amounts of sodium can increase the risk of heart disease.
Under the law, scheduled to take effect Dec. 1, restaurants refusing to use the warning would face a $200 fine.
The New York City Health Board said the new law applies only to chain restaurants with 15 or more locations nationally. This means more than 3,000 restaurants in the city will be affected.
New York City joins Seattle in providing sodium and other nutritional information to customers, but Michael Jacobson, executive director of the Center for Science in the Public Interest,
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