Alcohol Label Law Reversed
A federal appeals court ruled today that beer, wine and liquor bottles do not have to carry labels listing all ingredients.
The three-member U.S. Court of Appeals panel reversed a decision by U.S. District Judge John H. Pratt last year reinstating a Treasury Department rule requiring ingredient labeling on alcoholic beverages. The ingredient labeling requirement was originally scheduled to go into effect in 1983 but was held up by two attempts by the Reagan Administration to repeal it and a resulting tangle of litigation.
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