The Associated Press
NEW YORK — New York City begins a new era in nutritional warnings, with chain restaurants having to start putting a special symbol on highly salty dishes.
The first-of-its-kind rule, which took effect on Dec. 1, requires a salt-shaker emblem on some sandwiches, salads and other menu items that top the recommended daily limit of 2,300 milligrams — about a teaspoon — of sodium.
It's the latest in a series of novel nutritional moves by the nation's biggest city, and it comes as health advocates, federal regulators. . .