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San Francisco targets trans fats in eateries

January 29, 2008

San Francisco Chronicle: The Board of Supervisors recently voted to begin a City Hall push to remove trans fats from the food served in San Francisco restaurants. With the approval of the city's leading restaurateurs' association, the board voted unanimously to institute a voluntary program in which restaurants that pledge to cook without trans fats will receive a decal that can be displayed to let customers know their food is being prepared without partially hydrogenated vegetable oils.

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