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There are finally signs of forward motion on trans fat labeling. The National Academy of Sciences is preparing a nutritional study that includes information on trans fats, and I doubt it will be in favor of them. The FDA is expected to go ahead with their delayed nutritional label changes after the study is released this summer. Their original attempt to get the label to list the amount of trans fats was stalled with opponents arguing that the research was flawed. I’m not wondering who those opponents were. Just take a look at most prepared food labels and you can see that the food industry will suffer greatly from having to expose an unhealthy number on their boxes of cereal, ramen noodles, crackers, diet cookies, bags of tortilla chips, tortillas themselves, the list goes on and on. Frito-Lay has a helpful page that lists their products which don’t have hydrogenated oil (Smartfood cheese popcorn is very yummy).

Written by ltao

June 19th, 2002 at 1:07 am

Posted in Uncategorized