Texas can\u2019t require warning labels on food or drinks containing one of 44 ingredients, a federal judge ruled Wednesday, saying that it likely violates the First Amendment.<\/p>\n
Although the state law supports the state\u2019s interest in supporting the health of Texas residents, \u201cthe means chosen to advance that interest do not pass constitutional muster,\u201d the US District Court for the Western District of Texas said in an order<\/a> granting a preliminary injunction to the industry groups challenging the statute.<\/p>\n The law compels food and beverage makers to \u201cconvey a government-scripted message on food labels and online,\u201d word-for-word, Judge Alan D. …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Texas can\u2019t require warning labels on food or drinks containing one of 44 ingredients, a federal judge ruled…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":161693,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[11083,12917,66233,27,29,28],"class_list":["post-161692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-freedom-of-speech","tag-preliminary-injunctions","tag-product-warnings","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161692","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=161692"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161692\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/161693"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=161692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=161692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=161692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}