The U.S. is cutting out trans fats from processed foods by 2018

Grist
By Grist staffJun 16, 2015, 2:48 pm77 pts
Time to start hoarding vintage Cheetos for eBay: This morning, the FDA announced it will ban the largest source of trans fats in the American diet. In 2018, partially hydrogenated oils — a major preservative and general nastifier of processed foods — will no longer be “generally recognized as safe.”…

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