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Article: The heat is on food companies to ditch trans fats. IN HOT OIL.(BUSINESS)
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- Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN)
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- December 10, 2006
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Byline: Matt McKinney; Staff Writer
It's reviled by doctors. And demonized by the media. Now it's going to be banned in New York City restaurants. The partially hydrogenated vegetable oil that once was seen as a solution to America's love affair with grease had a hurried fall from grace this year as new labeling laws focused attention on the oil's abundance of artificial trans fats.
The change has left food companies scrambling to find alternatives while protecting the tastes that made them famous, such as that of the McDonald's French fry. The New York City ban will require McDonald's to replace its cooking oil with something more healthful within 18 months.
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