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The FDA estimates the ban will cost the food industry $6.2 billion over 20 years as the industry reformulates products and substitutes new ingredients for trans fat. The benefits are estimated at $140 billion over 20 years mainly from lower health care spending.
In this enlightened age of dining, most people know that artificial trans fats are bad. In fact, the FDA has already recommended artificial trans fats from partially hydrogenated oils be removed ...
Thanks to a ruling by the FDA, it looks like trans fats are on the out. Trans fats occur when hydrogen is added to vegetable oil. The cholesterol-raising fat appears in many processed foods ...
Shutterstock By Toni Clarke WASHINGTON -- The U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Tuesday made good on its proposal to effectively ban artificial trans fats from a wide range of processed foods ...
Two other events were important in the removal of trans fat. First, in 2013 the FDA announced it planned to completely ban artificial trans fat in the form of partially hydrogenated oil. Second, soon after this, Walmart informed its suppliers they needed to remove trans fat by 2015 if they wanted to continue to sell their products at its stores ...
Fred August Kummerow (October 4, 1914 – May 31, 2017) was a German-born American biochemist.A longtime professor of comparative biosciences at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, Kummerow was best known as an opponent of the use of artificial trans fats in processed foods, carrying out a 50-year campaign for a federal ban on the use of the substance in processed foods. [2]
The Obama administration has been working hard to make American's diets healthier, and it's believed that it could be one big step closer as early as this week. It's expected that the FDA will be ...
In 1994, CSPI petitioned the FDA to require trans fat to be added to Nutrition Facts labels, and in 2004, [42] with stronger evidence of trans fat's harmfulness, CSPI petitioned FDA to ban partially hydrogenated oil, the source of most artificial trans fat. In 2003 FDA required trans fat to be labeled, [43] and in 2015 [44] FDA banned the use ...