Ban on Trans Fats

Efforts to ban artery-clogging trans fats from restaurants statewide are gaining momentum.  

When it comes to health and fitness, where California goes the nation follows. At least that's what many health advocates are hoping, as the Golden State becomes the first to bar restaurants and bakeries from ...  

Where did the state of California get the idea it has the authority to ban food ingredients such as trans fats, as recently happened in Sacramento? The answer is simple: They got the idea from us.  

A top state health official is heading to New York to evaluate the city's first-in-the-nation trans-fat ban for restaurants. John Auerbach, commissioner of the Department...  

Massachusetts may soon join California in banning the use of trans fats in restaurant meals, The Boston Globe reports.  

California's governor Arnold Schwarzenegger recently banned trans fats in restaurants and retail outlets because of the risk it poses to our health, and with our obesity issues here New Zealand could follow suit. National Party MP Bob Clarkson was ...  

Whole Harvest Products Welcomes California Trans Ban WARSAW, N.C., Aug. 21 /PRNewswire/ -- In light of California's upcoming ban on trans fats, the nation's first all natural no trans fat line of commercial ...  

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California will be the first state to ban trans fats in restaurants and bakeries under legislation signed Friday by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger. The measure requires restaurants to quit using trans fats by January 2010, and for bakeries to follow suit one year later...  

The trend towards more healthful school meal choices continues this fall with district nutrition programs emphasizing whole grains, fruits and vegetables while cutting back on trans fats, added sugar and sodium, according to the School Nutrition Association's 2008 Back to School Nutrition Trends...  

Last week, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger passed a bill that will ban trans fats in restaurants statewide by 2010.  

Yet trans-fats started appearing in herring gull diets almost 15 years ago and have been increasing ever since, according to a recent study published in the ...  

Efforts to ban artery-clogging trans fats from restaurants statewide are gaining momentum.  

Efforts to ban artery-clogging trans fats from restaurants statewide are gaining momentum.  

Local eateries have gotten a head start complying with a bill passed by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger last week that will ban trans fats in restaurants statewide by 2010.  

Some big changes on restaurant menus in and around the capital city may be on the way after an announcement Friday that the county is phasing out trans fats from restaurants.