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California’s restaurants are used to choking down the unpalatable. They’ve endured prolonged pandemic shutdowns , skyrocketing food costs, and the slow exodus of customers fleeing high prices and higher taxes.

Now, Sacramento has cooked up another ingredient for entrepreneurial misery: a law that will make California the first state in the nation to require restaurants to list major food allergens on their menus.

The new law requires restaurants to indicate on their menu whether each dish contains any of nine major allergens — milk, eggs, fish, shellfish, tree nuts, peanuts, wheat, soy or sesame. After small businesses protested, the bill was amended so that it only applies to businesses with at least 20 locations.

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