PAHO to Food Industry: Embrace “Trans-Fat Free Americas”
Friday, September 28th, 2007From the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO): Nutrition Experts Call on Food Industry to Support “Trans Fat Free Americas” Experts on nutrition and public health are calling on leaders in the food industry to speed up the elimination of industrially produced trans fatty acids from the foods they produce and distribute, and to become partners […]
PAHO Throws Down the Gauntlet on Trans-Fats
Friday, June 8th, 2007Temas Note: Although the task force report mentioned in these Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) press releases was actually approved several weeks ago, it was not formally released to the general public until today (07 June). Rather than release it quietly and let it be approved without much public discussion (outside of PAHO and Health […]
PAHO Calls for a “Trans Fat Free Americas”
Saturday, April 28th, 2007From the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO): Nutrition Experts Call for “Trans Fat Free Americas” PAHO task force cites scientific evidence that transfatty acids are “toxic” to human health Experts on nutrition and public health today called for eliminating transfatty acids from food supplies throughout the Western Hemisphere, at a special task force meeting convened […]