Quoting a CBC report (emphasis mine),
The Calgary region is to become the first in the country to require restaurants to cut the use of trans fats, suspected of killing up to 5,000 Canadians a year from heart disease.
Starting Jan. 1, the regional health authority — which serves more than 1.2 million people — will require that all margarines, spreads made with margarine and oils used for cooking contain a maximum of two per cent trans fats of the total fat content.
Here are some info on the trans fat ban from the Calgary Health Region.
Calgary is not the first city in North America to have a policy on Trans Fat. To have some grounded discussions, here are two 2006 December economics commentaries by Judge Posner and Nobel Prize Economist Becker on the New York City Ban on Trans Fat. I think these are good reads whether you agree with them or not.
Subscribe to RSS Feed
Subscribe by email
