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Title: Trans fats to be removed from foods
Post by: kevvosa on October 18, 2006, 05:46:30 pm: Food industry initiates trans fat removal programme

By Anthony Fletcher

17/10/2006
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Over £1.5billion worth
of food products in the UK are being reformulated in order to eliminate
harmful trans fats, according to a food industry body.

The Food and Drink Federation (FDF) has claimed that hundreds of well-known household names, including Hula Hoops, Mars Bars, Nestle Cheerios and Weetabix, have been redesigned to take into account growing health concerns.

"The industry is committed to reducing the level of trans fats to as
low as is technically possible and has been actively reducing these
levels," said FDF communications director Julian Hunt.

"Many companies through reformulating their products have managed
to dramatically reduce the levels over the past two years. This is
fully in line with manufacturers' commitment through FDF's Food and
Health Manifesto to reduce levels of fats."

From: http://www.foodanddrinkeurope.com/news/ng.asp?n=71328-nestle -unilever-united-biscuits
Title: Trans fats to be removed from foods
Post by: oldspice on October 18, 2006, 09:32:30 pm
Title: Trans fats to be removed from foods
Post by: chocadmin on October 18, 2006, 11:34:47 pm: About time, they were supposed to eliminate these ages ago. Don't forget that many 'cheaper' products will still use trans fats to keep costs down.
Title: Trans fats to be removed from foods
Post by: kevvosa on October 18, 2006, 11:48:08 pm: Morrisons Bettabuy certainly does. My friend eats their Bettabuy chocolate all the time which contains hydrogenated fats. I won't touch it with a barge pole.
Title: Trans fats to be removed from foods
Post by: chocadmin on October 19, 2006, 08:34:17 am: 'Gold bars' used to be practically all trans fat, wonder if they've changed them.
Title: Trans fats to be removed from foods
Post by: lorri on October 19, 2006, 12:08:16 pm: about time, shame its taken the powers that be so long to take this issue seriously
Title: Trans fats to be removed from foods
Post by: kevvosa on October 19, 2006, 01:13:51 pm: Cadbury Boost contains hydrogenated oils I noticed today.
Title: Trans fats to be removed from foods
Post by: on October 20, 2006, 07:20:09 am: The new Dark KitKat contains HVO and the ordinary KitKat doesn't so what's that about?
Title: Trans fats to be removed from foods
Post by: kevvosa on October 20, 2006, 12:06:16 pm: They probably tried to cut some costs to make up for the fact that producing a higher cocoa content Kitkat costs them more money.