Food Labels to Reveal Unhealthy Trans Fat

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Food Labels to Reveal Unhealthy Trans Fat

AP Medical Writer

Consumers are about to get a better idea of just how unhealthy some brands of potato chips, cookies, even margarines really are: Food labels will soon be required to reveal how much artery- clogging trans fat they contain. ---

Under regulations to be announced by the Food and Drug Administration Wednesday, that will change.

The nutrition label will get a new line listing the amount of trans fat in each food under the amount of saturated fat it contains, say consumer advocates and industry representatives familiar with FDA's decision. Adding the two lines will show the total of heart-risky fats in every serving. ---

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