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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The New York City Board of Health voted unanimously yesterday to require the city's roughly 20,000 restaurants to stop cooking with trans fats, making New York the first major U.S. city to adopt such a ban.
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The Montgomery County Council unanimously approved a ban on partially hydrogenated oils in restaurants, supermarket bakeries and delis yesterday, becoming the first county in the nation to restrict artery-clogging trans fats.
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The movement to ban artery-clogging trans fats from food has a new venue: cooking schools.
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Burger King Corp. said on Wednesday it has begun testing cooking oils free of trans-fats in its restaurants, with an eye toward a national roll-out by late 2008.
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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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New Yorkers are worried that when a citywide ban on artificial trans fats goes into effect on Sunday, French fries will lose their crunch.
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Leave the gun, remake the cannolis? Days after city health officials proposed outlawing trans fats in eateries, Mayor Michael Bloomberg defended the ban and tried to drag Robert De Niro into the debate because the actor's restaurants do not use the harmful man-made oil.
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Trans fat will soon be gone from Big Apple restaurants. What's next?
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NEW YORK -- The Board of Health voted Tuesday to make New York the nation's first city to ban artery-clogging artificial trans fats at restaurants _ from the corner pizzeria to high-end bakeries.
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The New York City Board of Health voted unanimously Tuesday to require all city chain restaurants to post calorie data on their menus.
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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.
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Does the state have a place in the kitchens of the nation? Members of Parliament have voted to follow the lead of Denmark and make Canada the second country in the world to ban trans fatty acids, widely considered to be the nastiest form of fat.
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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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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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The government and opposition parties have declared war on trans fats, after the NDP introduced a motion that would make Canada the world&#39;s second country to ban heart-clogging compounds.
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NEW YORK -- Want 300-calorie fries with that? The city Board of Health voted Tuesday to approve a new version of a law requiring fast-food outlets to display calorie counts on their menus, hoping the fat-filled truth will shock New Yorkers into eating healthier.