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Byline: Todd Ackerman
Jul. 10--The secret stuff that helps make doughnuts, french fries and cookies taste so good but wreaks such harm is about to become easy to spot.
In a change expected to prevent 500 deaths a year, the Food and Drug Administration announced plans Wednesday to require that nutritional labels on packaged foods carry information about how much artery-clogging "trans fat" they contain.
"This label change means that trans fat can no longer lurk, hidden, in our food choices," said Dr. Mark McClellan, FDA commissioner.
The new rule will bring trans fat into the same light as its notorious cousin, saturated fat, whose levels have been required to be disclosed since labels were mandated 13 years ago. Trans fat has never gotten as much attention as saturated fat, but nutritionists consider it at…