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WASHINGTON -- WASHINGTON (AP) — Heart-clogging trans fats have been slowly disappearing from grocery aisles and restaurant menus in the last decade. Now, the Food and Drug Administration is finishing the job.

The FDA plans to announce later Thursday that it will require the food industry to gradually phase out all trans fats, saying they are a threat to people's health. Commissioner Margaret Hamburg said the move could prevent 20,000 heart attacks a year and 7,000 deaths.

Hamburg said that while the amount of trans fats in the country's diet has declined dramatically in the last decade, they "remain an area of significant public health concern." The trans fats have long been criticized by nutritionists, and New York and other local governments have banned them.

The agency isn't yet setting a timeline for the phase-out, but will collect comments for two months before officials determine how long it will take. Different foods may have different timelines, depending how easy it is to substitute.

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Source: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/11/07/fda-ban-trans-fats_n_4232871.html

But I like trans fats

Trans fats are perfectly fine. Why, I eat trans fats every day because they are so tasty, and I have never had anythi- OH MY GOD! *clutches chest* AAAAAGH! SOMEONE CALL ME A PARAMEDIC!

Quote from: GLaDOS on November 08, 2013, 02:02:44 PM
SOMEONE CALL ME A PARAMEDIC!

Clever.

*snaps fingers* I thought SOMEONE would fall for it.

I already called 9-1-1...

I wish the article was more in-depth about trans fat besides the industrial hidrogenization process that originates it and the cardiovascular harm it does. Trans fats are a really interesting subject though, it is thought that a TFA-rich diet during pregnancy affects fetus and infant physical growth but studies suggest that it also  affects their behavioral development (link). Trans-cis isomers are really interesting themselves, there's a lot of cool stuff about stereospecificity that we know of, especially when it comes to enzymatic reactions, it's all super neat!