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Aug 24, 2006 8:48 am US/Central

Restaurants Flout Foie Gras Ban, But No Complaints

Officials: No Raids Planned In Future

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CHICAGO (AP) ― With restaurants across Chicago flouting the city's new ban on foie gras -- serving everything from foie gras pizza to soul food -- one might expect a flurry of complaints to City Hall from the ban's proponents.

But Health Department spokesman Tim Hadac says officials didn't get one call about the ban Tuesday, the day the prohibition went into effect.

Officials say they don't plan any foie gras raids in the future. So the ban will be enforced only if people complain, and Hadac says he doesn't expect that to happen very often.

Restaurants found to be in violation of the ban twice can be issued $250 fines.

Mayor Richard M. Daley has called the foie gras ban the "silliest law" the City Council has ever passed.

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