Europe Limits Use of Trans Fats in Foods
The move is widely seen as a positive step toward eliminating all trans fats by 2023.
Apr. 5, 2021
Foods with an industrial trans fat content of more than two percent can no longer be placed on the European Union market, according to a new regulation from the European Commission.
Trans fats – or trans fatty acids – are unsaturated fats with carbon-carbon double bonds. They are usually a byproduct of partially hydrogenating vegetable and fish oils and naturally occur in food such as dairy and some cow, goat and sheep meat.