Press Mentions Food Makers Vow To Cut Trans Fats Globally Wall Street Journal: The World Health Organization is launching an initiative to eliminate trans fats from diets globally, pressing makers of foods and oils, and governments, to accelerate work to prevent hundreds of thousands of deaths from heart disease each year.
Press Mentions WHO Calls For Elimination Of Trans Fat In Foods By 2023 CNN: The World Health Organization wants to eliminate artificial trans fats from the global food supply and has a step-by-step strategy on how to do so by 2023.
Press Mentions UN Health Agency Aims To Wipe Out Trans Fats Worldwide Associated Press: The United Nations agency has in the past pushed to exterminate infectious diseases, but now it’s aiming to erase a hazard linked to chronic illness.
Press Mentions WHO Calls For Trans Fats To Be Eliminated Within Five Years Reuters: Trans fats are popular with manufacturers of fried, baked and snack foods because they have a long shelf life, but they are bad for consumers, increasing heart disease risk by 21 percent and deaths by 28 percent, a WHO statement said.
Press Mentions Ministers Urged To Ban Deadly Trans Fats From Foods The Telegraph: "The elimination of industrial trans fats from food is feasible and is being done but mostly in high income and western countries. We need to extend these efforts to all countries," said Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, WHO Director-General.
Press Mentions WHO Urges All Countries To Ban Trans Fats NBC News: The World Health Organization (WHO) urged all countries to get rid of trans fats in their food supply, with laws banning them if necessary.
Press Mentions WHO Calls For Elimination Of Trans Fats Globally By 2023 U.S. News and World Report: Organizations announced an initiative called REPLACE, an acronym with six action items that are directed at the sustained elimination of industrially-produced trans fats.
Press Mentions New Effort Being Launched To Eliminate Trans Fats Globally Voice of America: REPLACE, a new global health plan is being rolled out by the World Health Organization, along with a health initiative called Resolve to Save Lives. The goal is to prevent half a million people a year from dying of heart disease.
Press Mentions Fight To Eliminate Trans Fats Goes Global Associated Press: The World Health Organization is calling on all nations to rid foods of artificial trans fats in the next five years.
Press Mentions We’ve Known That A Dangerous Type Of Fat Has Been Killing People For Decades — Now Governments Are Finally Cracking Down Business Insider : Many countries have already banned trans fats, but food producers in Africa and South Asia still use these dangerous products.