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‹ Order of Business Calorie information on restaurant menus
Summary
Senator Keane supports using the Food Safety Authority’s menucal.ie tool to calculate calories rather than requiring restaurants to reinvent the process.
I support the remarks of Senator Feargal Quinn and also the remarks made by Senator Mary White yesterday or the day before about the obesity issue. I draw the attention of Senators to the claim being made by restaurants that someone will have to sit down and calculate the number of calories in every meal on every menu. The Food Safety Authority of Ireland has an online tool, menucal.ie, which will calculate at the touch of a button how many calories are in any meal. I know this because I have done it.
