Washington Post Reports New Label Being Considered for Wines
Posted: Thu Jan 24, 2008 11:10 am
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Alcohol Labeling Proposal Sets Off a Brawl
By Cindy Skrzycki
Tuesday, January 22, 2008; Page D01
After more than 30 years of deliberation, federal regulators have proposed requiring the alcoholic-beverage industry to put nutrition and alcohol-content labels on their containers, setting off the equivalent of a barroom brawl among makers of beer, wine and liquor.
Pushed by consumer groups, the U.S. Treasury Department's Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau for the first time would mandate disclosure of how many carbohydrates and calories and how much protein and fat alcoholic drinks contain, as food labels do. How and where to disclose alcohol content is generating heat.
Read the full story in The Washington Post
Alcohol Labeling Proposal Sets Off a Brawl
By Cindy Skrzycki
Tuesday, January 22, 2008; Page D01
After more than 30 years of deliberation, federal regulators have proposed requiring the alcoholic-beverage industry to put nutrition and alcohol-content labels on their containers, setting off the equivalent of a barroom brawl among makers of beer, wine and liquor.
Pushed by consumer groups, the U.S. Treasury Department's Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau for the first time would mandate disclosure of how many carbohydrates and calories and how much protein and fat alcoholic drinks contain, as food labels do. How and where to disclose alcohol content is generating heat.
Read the full story in The Washington Post