Montgomery scales back menu labeling

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Montgomery County will not enforce all of a new local law that requires the suburb’s restaurant chains to disclose health information on its menus.

“I have concluded that the most prudent course of action is to proceed with enforcing the components of county law that are identical to [the national health care law] and delay those components of county law that the FDA will address in federal regulations,” County Executive Ike Leggett wrote in a memo to County Council President Valerie Ervin.

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