Media Outlets Continue Coverage Of WHO’s Plan To Eliminate Trans Fats From Global Food Supply By 2023

CNN: WHO calls for elimination of trans fat in foods by 2023 (Howard, 5/14).

Fortune: The WHO Now Wants Every Country to Eliminate Trans Fats. Here’s How That Will Change the Way You Eat (Detrick, 5/14).

The Guardian: Industrial trans fats must be removed from food supply, WHO says (Boseley, 5/14).

Los Angeles Times: Health officials launch ambitious plan to rid the world of trans fats (Healy, 5/14).

New York Times: Trans Fats Should be Eliminated Worldwide by 2023, WHO Says (Jacobs, 5/14).

Quartz: How trans fat fell from grace to become a foodie villain (Purdy, 5/14).

U.N. News: U.N. health agency aims to save millions of lives by ‘elimination’ of trans-fatty acids from global food chain (5/14).

USA TODAY: Trans fats should be banned, World Health Organization says (Bomey, 5/14).

Vox: The new global plan to eliminate the most harmful fat in food, explained (Belluz/Collins, 5/14).

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