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4.4.2 Petition to Ban Hydrogenated Oil
Оглавление“In 2003, the National Academies’ Institute of Medicine concluded that the only safe level of trans fat in the diet is zero, and in 2004 an FDA advisory panel concluded [that] trans fat is even more harmful than saturated fat.”37 For this reason, the Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI) in 2004 proposed revoking GRAS status for hydrogenated oil that contains trans fatty acids.38 “Unlike fats that occur in nature, partially hydrogenated vegetable oil is totally artificial and absolutely unnecessary in the food supply,” said CSPI’s Michael Jacobson. “Food‐processing companies should worry less about the shelf life of their products and more about the shelf life of their customers. Getting rid of partially hydrogenated vegetable oil is probably the single easiest, fastest, cheapest way to save tens of thousands of lives each year.”39
The National Food Processors Association called the petition the wrong way to address the issue because “Nutrition experts—including FDA—have called for consumers to choose diets low in trans fats, not to eliminate them. Nutrition experts also have cautioned consumers, in their efforts to reduce trans fat intake, against making dietary choices that lead to a nutritionally inadequate diet or that have other unintended effects, such as replacing trans fats in their diets with saturated fats.”40