GOLDEN, Colo. (KDVR) — The City of Golden will shortly be between the areas in Colorado forbidding dining places from supplying sugary drinks as a default beverage in children’s foods.
Golden’s metropolis council unanimously authorized an arrangement that will have Jefferson County Public Health enforce the ordinance.
“We come to feel there is price in giving education. The option is 100% nevertheless there for parents. This will aid moms and dads provide healthier options to their young ones. And possibly not have children placing up a battle when they see soda mentioned as an choice on the menu,” Golden Metropolis Councilmember JJ Trout told FOX31. “Studies clearly show on average, young ones are consuming a bathtub entire of sugary drinks a 12 months. With any luck ,, this is a way to avert that.”
The Colorado Restaurant Association is concerned about the more fees for eating places.
“The CRA has asked for these varieties of sugary drink proposals to incorporate the ability to checklist 100% juice and very low-fats chocolate milk on kids’ menus to provide ordinances in alignment with the present menus of countrywide chain restaurants. This would ease the have to have to re-print menus for many locally owned franchisees and even independent restaurants that bundle drinks with food on their kids’ menus. Restaurants across Colorado are really expense-delicate soon after two years of pandemic-associated operational limitations and lessened earnings,” explained Mollie Steinemann, CRA’s supervisor of federal government affairs, in a statement.
The new ordinance goes into effect on June 1. It will need the default drinks with kids foods be drinking water, flavored drinking water or glowing water with additional sweeteners or dairy milk of 130 energy or significantly less with no included sweeteners or flavors.