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Government to require nutrition labels to include trans fat amounts.
Byline: Andrew Martin
WASHINGTON _ Spurred by increasing concern over the nation's obesity epidemic, federal regulators Wednesday announced that they would require food companies to detail the amount of unhealthy trans fatty acid in products, and they promised that more rules to curb fat were on the way.
The new guidelines, which take effect Jan. 1, 2006, represent the first significant change to nutritional labels since the government introduced them a decade ago. Trans fatty acids _ or trans fat _ have been shown to increase the risk of coronary heart disease and can be found in such foods as salad dressing, cookies, margarine, vegetable shortening and crackers.
Trans fat is a byproduct of a process that makes oils more solid and increases their shelf life.
"By putting this data on food labels, we are going to be able to arm the American consumer with even more information so they can make healthy choices about the food that they eat," said Health and Human Services Secretary Tommy…
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