NY bans most trans fats from restaurants
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New York City's board of health on Tuesday voted to phase out most artificial trans fats from restaurants, forcing doughnut shops and fast-food stands to remove artery-clogging oils from their cooking.
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New York Cityâs new rules for menu labels at chain restaurants have set off a food fight among the nationâs obesity experts.
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A judge struck down a New York City rule Tuesday that required fast-food restaurants to post calorie counts on their menus, but he suggested that expanding the rule to include more restaurants could make it legal.
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McDonald's Corp. said on Monday more than 1,200 of its U.S. restaurants have switched to a trans-fat-free frying oil, though no timeline has been set for when the rest of its hamburger chain would be using the new product.
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San Franciscoâs Board of Supervisors has banned the feeding of a tourist attraction.
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The American Heart Association has become the first big health group to urge a specific limit on trans fats in the diet &amp;#151; less than 1 percent of total calories &amp;#151; in new guidelines released Monday.
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New Yorkers may have tasted the difference as new rules took effect barring trans fats &#151; but they couldn't always see the effect of a requirement that restaurants list calorie counts on menus.
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New regulations are keeping some fancy foods out of stores
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Burger King said Friday it will use trans-fat-free cooking oil at all its U.S. restaurants by the end of next year, following in the footsteps of other leading fast-food restaurants.
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McDonald's Corp. and other U.S.   restaurant chains said on Monday they removed spinach from   their menus after the leafy green vegetable was linked last   week to more than 100 cases of E. coli.
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New York's fast food restaurants can ignore a city law aimed at making it easier for consumers to tell how many calories are packed into their burgers, fries or tacos, a judge ruled on Tuesday.
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Chinese food inspectors have banned meat products from seven U.S. companies from being imported into their country after finding a range of contamination issues in shipments checked on Saturday, according to China's official news agency Xinhua.
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Scientists contend that trans fat, a component of partially hydrogenated oil, is more dangerous than the fat it replaced.
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Darden Restaurants Inc., parent of the Red Lobster and Olive Garden restaurant chains, on Wednesday became the latest U.S. restaurant company to say it will switch to using frying oils free of artery-clogging trans fats.
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McDonald's Corp. and other U.S.   restaurant chains said on Monday they removed spinach from   their menus after the leafy green vegetable was linked last   week to over 100 cases of E. coli.
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McDonald's Corp. has finally selected a trans-fat-free oil for cooking its french fries after years of testing, the fast-food chain said yesterday.
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New York City's Health Department on   Tuesday proposed a near ban on the use of artificial trans fat   at restaurants, likening its health danger to that of lead   paint.