COLUMBUS, Ohio – A Cleveland law aimed at helping residents get healthier may be dead before it even gets started.
The Ohio Senate has added an amendment to the proposed state budget at the request of the Ohio Restaurant Association that would ban local municipalities from regulating the ingredients fast food-type eateries can use to prepare foods.
If left in the budget bill, it would trump the Cleveland law, which passed in April as part of the "Healthy Cleveland" initiative and bans restaurants from using cooking oils containing trans fats starting in 2013.
"To see individuals who I have never spoken to decide to do this without referencing that we did this with the assistance of our local health systems to try to help people live longer kind of makes me wonder what is going on here," said Cleveland City Councilman Joe Cimperman.
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