NEW YORK CITY – This week, an appeals court temporarily halted enforcement of New York City’s sodium warnings, the New York Times reports. In September, the city’s Board of Health had approved a measure which required restaurants with 15 or more U.S. locations to affix a salt shaker icon on menu items with at least 2,300 milligrams of sodium.

Last week, a Manhattan judge ruled that the city could move forward with the warnings but the National Restaurant Association—which filed the original complaint—appealed that decision. The Appellate Division of Supreme Court sided with the association in its request to stop enforcement of the ordinance until the appeals court has ruled on the matter.

“The association is pleased by [the] decision to grant emergency relief from this unlawful and unprecedented sodium mandate to the men and women who own and operate chain restaurants in New York City,” said Angelo Amador, the National Restaurant Association’s regulatory counsel, in a statement. “We now look forward to a full and fair opportunity to make our case before the Appellate Court.”

A panel of appellate court judges will next decide whether or not to grant the association’s motion for a preliminary injunction of the mandate’s enforcement, after which an actual appeal of the case will be heard.