dr. wooten. aisle interested how hr2713 treats serving chances do the fda final rule allows pizza slices to provide calorie counts per pizza or standard slice with a listing of the number of sliceses per pizza and hr217 seems to allow covered establishments to list a number of servings and number of calories per servings or the multiserving item that is divided before presentation to the consumer. do you think the fda final rule on hr217 are offering two different approaches for accomplishing the same policy goal are there differences between them and if there are could you explain implications. >> actually hr2017 has one other option and that's to list the nutrition information by the serving side or subdivision unit without having to list the number of servings, which is different than the far. you could reduce the numb of calories in a seize a overnightly slicing into it ten satellites instate of eight. you too take a plate of chicken wings and put half of the wings on one side and the other h

dr. wooten. five minutes opening statement pmt. >> good morning. i'm director of nutrition policy at the center for science for public interest and i appreciate the opportunity on share the consumer view this morning. cspi supports the senate's bipartisan request to the fda to give industry more time to comply with menu labeling. but we strongly oppose hr 2017. the common sense nutrition disclosure act supports neither common sense nor nutrition information disclosure. common sense would be to side with the american people who are afflicted by high rates of obesity over domino's which is hardly in need of congressional protection given its almost $2 billion in annual sales. at a time when two thirds of americans are either overweight or obese half of our food dollars are spent on away from home foods and studies clearly link eating out to obesity. common sense would suggest that congress support americans' ability to make educated choices from the widest range of food service establishments provided under the law. i admire the gutsiness of some of

dr. wooten. ms. wootan: i appreciate the opportunity to share the consumer view this morning.he sci agreing with give manager time to comply with policy but we strongly oppose h.r. 2017. the commonsense nutrition disclosure act supports neither commonsense nor nutrition information disclosure. commonsense would be to side with the american people who are afflicted by high rates of obesity, over domino's which is hardly in need of congressional protection given its almost $2 billion in annual sales. at a time when 2/3 of americans are either overweight or obese, half of our food dollars are spent on away from home foods and studies clearly link eating out to obesity. commonsense would suggest that congress support americans' ability to make educated choices from the widest range of food service establishments provided under the law. i admire the gutsyness of some of my fellow witnesses. it's political aastute and clever to focus on the fixes h.r. 2017 would supposedly provide them while failing to mention the bill would exempt them from providing calorie information for their p