Monday, October 30, 2006

Board of Health Holding Trans Fat Hearing


New York's Board of Health is holding its first public hearing Monday on a plan to make the city the first in the US to ban restaurants from serving food containing artificial tFast-food companies use the substance to prepare french fries, muffins and doughnuts, and the city's proposal has many eateries scrambling for ways to get the artery-clogging substance out of their food.

There are indications that Kentucky Fried Chicken may make a change. The company says it's planning a "major announcement'' in New York Monday morning about a change coming to all 5,500 of its U.S. restaurants. Franchise owners told several newspapers and magazines that KFC would stop using partially hydrogenated vegetable oil -- the primary source of artificial trans fats.
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