WHO - trans fats

Sly Saint · Mar 5, 2025

Back in 2018
"The World Health Organization is calling on all nations to rid foods of artificial trans fats in the next five years."

Officials think it can be done in five years because the work is well underway in many countries. Denmark did it 15 years ago, and since then the United States and more than 40 other higher-income countries have been working on getting the heart-clogging additives out of their food supplies.

In 2015, the FDA took steps to finish the job of eliminating trans fats, calling for manufacturers to stop selling trans fatty foods by June 18, 2018
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WHO calls for all countries to rid food of trans fats | CBC News

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Trans fat regulation - Wikipedia

Jan 2024

WHO developed a REPLACE action package that supports governments to design and implement a policy to eliminate industrially produced trans fat from their food supply.

What governments do
Replacing trans fat with healthier oils and fats in food supply is a low-cost solution for governments to save the lives of their citizens. Experiences in several countries demonstrate that industrially produced trans fat can be replaced by healthier oils. Costs of implementing best practice interventions (i.e. regulatory limits on trans fat) are well under the commonly accepted thresholds of cost-effectiveness. Thus, WHO recommends trans fat elimination as a cost-effective intervention for low- and middle-income countries. Governments can eliminate the cause of 7% of cardiovascular disease globally with a low-cost investment.

Experiences in several countries demonstrate that mandatory approaches are much more effective than voluntary approaches to reducing trans fat in the food supply and in the population.
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WHO spearheads efforts to eliminate industrially produced trans fat globally and supports country actions. Almost half of the world's population is currently covered by best-practice policies for TFA elimination, which means complete elimination of a dietary risk factor for heart disease.

The REPLACE action package, a roadmap for countries developed by WHO to help accelerate actions, offers six practical steps for the promotion of use and consumption of healthier fats and oils, and the elimination of industrially produced trans fats, to be achieved through regulatory actions, while establishing solid monitoring systems and creating awareness among policy-makers, producers, suppliers and the public. It is supported by a Global protocol for measuring fatty acid profiles of foods, with emphasis on monitoring trans-fatty acids originating from partially hydrogenated oils, developed to strengthen laboratory capacities.

WHO monitors countries' progress and has developed the Country Score Card to track performance, with WHO’s trans fat elimination validation programme formally recognizing countries that have eliminated industrially produced trans fat from their national food supplies.
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Trans fat

alex3619 · Mar 5, 2025

Cooking polyunsaturated fats at high heat also creates trans fats. We can get manufacturers to stop using them, but we also need to change cooking practices, including at fast food outlets and even restaurants.

Mij · Mar 5, 2025

Health Canada has banned artificial trans fat, making it illegal for manufacturers to add partially hydrogenated oils to foods sold in Canada. This ban is being phased in and as of September 2020 all artificially produced trans fat will be removed from the food supply.
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I was under the assumption that most countries already did this.

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