RESPONSIBLE BEVERAGE SERVICE ACT PROPOSED ABC RULES 160 TO 173 – WHY THE RUSH?

A proposal is in the works to create a massive ABC bureaucracy collecting personal data on every person in California who works in the alcohol sector of the hospitality industry.

The new rules will require scientific training of every server before being allowed to pour a glass of wine, and mandates hundreds of changes to current industry customer service practices. 

These rules, 45 days after being proposed, will be adopted without discussion unless the industry asks: “why the rush”?

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Wine in a 250 ML can – the Mystery of the TTB packaging Regulations and Solving the Problem by Amending the Regulations

We are committed to rational regulation and, even though we occasionally criticize the regulators for overzealous enforcement of vague regulations, we nonetheless well understand that agency discretion is limited by the enabling regulations. Today we are encouraging the TTB to exercise their discretion (via the rule-making process) and authorize wine in a 250 ml can – the most popular size for single serve wine in use in the world today. Not a day goes by that doesn’t surface a success story about marketing wine in a can.

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