What’s The Calorie Count In That Pizza Slice? FDA Wants A Fast Food Tell-All

DETROIT (CBS DETROIT) – The Food and Drug Administration wants people to know how many calories are in their fast food – but some of those rules don’t make sense for pizza.

While you can gauge how many calories might be in a particular food by searching online – the FDA wants to make that information easier to access on the spot reports WWJ’s Russ McNamara.

With pizza for example; the FDA wants to have the caloric information listed on a board within site of the customer.

Dominos Executive V.P. Lynn Liddle says having to build a board to list calories would be a hardship on individual franchisees. Which was a portion of her testimony before a House committee in Washington DC.

“Burdensome and a little bit silly,” says Liddle, “Our customers are primarily either ordering online or they are calling us to order a pizza.

“What we are proposing is that we put the very exact, precise information online – where our customers go … we have 34 million ways to order pizza and any concoction that you decide that you want you’ll be able to find the exact calories for that.”

Legislation was introduced that would exempt pizza places from the calorie posting rules.