Canada’s ban on transfats in processed foods went into effect this week.
Transfats are believed to cause cholesterol buildup in arteries and increasing the risk of heat attacks.
The ban also includes imports and restaurant meals.
The ban is against partially hydrogenated oils, or PHOs, and does not include naturally-occurring transfats which can be in milk, cheese, beef and lamb.
Trans fats replaced butter to add taste and texture to food and to extend the shelf life of products such as cookies, doughnuts, muffins, snacks and fried foods.
Yves Savoie, head of the Heart and Stroke Foundation, said he is thrilled to finally see the ban implemented.
In the 1980s, then agriculture minister John Wise, picked the RCMP on me after I published the results of an analysis of margarines and butter that he wanted to keep secret.
The aim of the analysis was to identify products that risk heart disease and butter, naturally, showed up with transfers.
Wise, who died kin 2013, never did discover my source, and I'm not telling now.
