date:May 24, 2013
n 2010 and 2011, the amount of trans fat was only reduced by 3.4%.
Industrially produced trans fats are powerful promoters of heart disease, so it is welcome news that food manufacturers are using less, senior author Dr. Dariush Mozaffarian of Harvard School of Public Health and Harvard Medical School said in a statement. But, we found that reformulations to reduce trans fat significantly slowed over time, and we also found large variations in reformulations among different food categories and