FDA announces trans fats to be phased out of American food supply

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) took a major step this week toward eliminating a major health risk present in the American diet. The FDA announced that artificial fats that are present in many processed foods and fast foods, will be phased out of the U.S. food supply over the next three years. The three year phase-out allows food manufacturers to find alternative ingredients to replace trans fats and reformulate their products to be in compliance with the new FDA regulation, which is expected to be essentially a zero-tolerance policy against the artificial substance. “I suspect the FDA will allow only...