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NYC Mulls Ban on Trans Fats in Eateries
By DAVID B. CARUSO
Associated Press Writer
NEW YORK (AP) -- Three years after the city banned smoking in restaurants, health officials are talking about prohibiting something they say is almost as bad: artificial trans fatty acids.
The city health department unveiled a proposal Tuesday that would bar cooks at any of the city's 24,600 food service establishments from using ingredients that contain the artery-clogging substance, commonly listed on food labels as partially hydrogenated oil.
Artificial trans fats are found in some shortenings, margarine and frying oils and turn up in foods from pie crusts to french fries to doughnuts.
Doctors agree that trans fats are unhealthy in nearly any amount, but a spokesman for the restaurant industry said he was stunned the city would seek to ban a legal ingredient found in millions of American kitchens.
"Labeling is one thing, but when they totally ban a product, it goes well beyond what we think is prudent and acceptable," said Chuck Hunt, executive vice president of the city's chapter of the New York State Restaurant Association.
He said the proposal could create havoc: Cooks would be forced to discard old recipes and scrutinize every ingredient in their pantry. A restaurant could face a fine if an inspector finds the wrong type of vegetable shortening on its shelves.
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Originally posted by iori_komei
I don't see what the big deal is, so restaurants and those kind of places
can't have transfat in their food, if you really want to be unhealthy and
consume transfats, than make your won food with them at home.
I mean it's not like the governments coming into our homes and telling
us what we can and can't eat.
If a measure like this was put to vote where I live, I'd vote for it.
Originally posted by dgtempe
Some of you dont find it peculiar that there's so much "worry" about our health?
I beg to differ. I dont see why the government should care if you're fat or not or what you eat.
They'd love to do away with most of us, anyway.
IMO, this government is involved in too many things!
Originally posted by dawnstar
Why?? I'm seriously curious about this, why would you support such a law?
Originally posted by dgtempe
Some of you dont find it peculiar that there's so much "worry" about our health?
I beg to differ. I dont see why the government should care if you're fat or not or what you eat.
They'd love to do away with most of us, anyway.
IMO, this government is involved in too many things!