Retailers to stop trans-fat use
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Major UK retailers plan to stop adding harmful trans-fats to their own-brand products.
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Electronics retailer trims guidance as Americans curb spending.
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Some bakers are being forced to substitute processed fats for real butter because of the small amounts of natural trans fat butter contains.
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Fearing an epidemic in child obesity, advocates in health-obsessed California urged federal regulators on Thursday to clamp down on advertising that celebrates America's love affair with fast-food.
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NEW YORK  - Many snack foods and spreads on the market are now free of artery-clogging trans fat, but consumers still need to be savvy label-readers, according to researchers.
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U.S. dairy producers will have to stop pitching the idea that drinking more milk spurs weight loss, the Federal Trade Commission told a physician's advocacy group in a letter made public on Friday.
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From the corner pizzeria to high-end bakeries, New York City's world famous eateries are preparing for kitchen scrutiny as the board of health moves to ban trans fats.
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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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British and Irish consumers may have to eat paler breakfast sausages and burgers after the European Union banned the use of a red food coloring, Red 2G, in the European Union due to concern it could cause cancer.
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The cereal giant wants to limit its marketing of less-than-nutritious fare to children.
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BIG-NAME retailers in the US want to stop the Bush administration from curbing the import of popular Chinese-made apparel and textiles.
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For much of the country, it's Girl Scout cookie time again. And this year, all those cookies, not just the Thin Mints and a few others, will come nearly free of harmful trans fats.
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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. 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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No more trans fats with those french fries? No problem. The city's ballyhooed ban on trans fat cooking oils in all New York restaurants &#151; an idea that gave chefs indigestion when first proposed &#151; seems to be going surprisingly smoothly. Across the city, most fast food chains say they've already made the switch days before the July 1 deadline, which is Sunday.
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New York City's Board of Health is expected to ban artery-clogging trans-fats from restaurants in the Big Apple.
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Pregnant and nursing women, as well as those who want to conceive, are advised in the United States to avoid certain types of seafood and to limit consumption of other varieties as a way to reduce potential ill effects from mercury and other contaminants.