TRANSPHOBIA!
(WND) 06/11/15 - The Food and Drug Administration is poised to announce new bans on artificial trans-fats, and regulatory watchdogs are warning: The nanny state is alive and thriving.
“Hold onto your salt-shaker,” said Jeff Stier, director of Risk Analysis with the National Centre for Public Policy Research, in a written statement. “There’s more to come from this administration. … [This is] a horrible idea.”
Stier also slammed a 2013 FDA claim that reducing the level of trans-fats in Americans’ diets could stop 20,000 or so heart attacks and 7,000 deaths per year, calling those figures “preposterous back then” and even more egregiously false now.
“They are even more far removed from reality today, as markets responded to consumer demand and have already lowered the amount of trans-fat in food,” he said in his statement. “The FDA’s scary assumptions are based on wobbly models piled on top of wishful thinking and doused with junk science.”
The FDA originally brought forth its trans-fat phaseout idea in late 2013 but is expected to finalize its regulatory curbs as soon as Monday. The agency is expected to boot trans-fats from its “generally recognized as safe” category, which will require any company that wants to use them to first petition the for FDA approval, the Associated Press reported.
Among the foods containing trans-fats: Commercially baked goods, microwave pizza and fried foods.
Stier said the little trans-fats that are used nowadays, like in microwave popcorn, ice cream sprinkles and some restaurant biscuits, “are there because they serve a specific function.”
He went on: “For instance, trans-fats are stable for a longer period of time, so a ban on even the most narrow uses of trans-fats will undoubtedly lead to more expensive food and more food waste.”
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Update:
FDA orders food manufacturers to stop using trans fat within three years
CNN) - 06/16/15- Artificial trans fat will have to disappear from the American diet, according to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.
The FDA on Tuesday ruled that trans fat is not “generally recognized as safe” for use in human food.
The department gave food manufacturers three years to remove the partially hydrogenated oils, or PHOs, from their products. The companies can petition the FDA for a special permit to use it, but no PHOs can be added to human food unless otherwise approved by the FDA.
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