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Article: Trans fats market loses its sizzle
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- Functional Foods & Nutraceuticals
- Article date:
- October 1, 2005
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UNITED STATES
With the Food and Drug Administration's Jan 1, 2006, deadline approaching for the mandatory labelling of trans fats present in US foodstuffs, the momentum against hydrogenated fat forms is growing. Food makers are opting to remove them from products altogether, rather than risk the wrath of an increasingly wary public.
Nestle, Unilever, McDonald's, Campbell's and Pepsi/Frito-Lay are just some of the major food companies to announce trans fat reduction programmes, both in the US and in other markets. Frito-Lay has removed trans fats from all of its US brands.
Now the city of New York has stepped into the fray by urging its 26,000-odd restaurants to remove trans fats from their ...