Transcript: Ban On Trans Fats Begins In New York

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ROBERT SIEGEL
NPR All Things Considered
07-01-2008
Ban On Trans Fats Begins In New York

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Speaking of cholesterol, today marks a milestone in the history of American cuisine, not to mention the history of fat. In New York City, this is the day when restaurants, bakeries, cafeterias, food carts have to stop using trans fats as the city implements the final phase of its ban - the most strict ban on trans fats in the nation. Last year, they had to take it out of the cooking oil; starting today, it's out of the piecrust, out of the cannoli, out of everything.

Well, we wondered what the public health tradeoffs are. Trans ...

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