Environmental Toxins: Federal Regulators Urged to Limit Trans Fats

The Heart and Stroke Foundation hopes that the Canadian federal government will do something to prevent trans fats from being used in foods. The group is asking the federal government to implement new recommendations from its Trans Fat Task Force report. Recommendations from the report include limiting the trans fat content in all foods bought in restaurants or in grocery stores to five percent of the total fat content.

Feds Urged to Put Limits on Use of Trans Fats

The government has not yet formally responded to the requests. Sally Brown, the CEO of the Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada, says that "we urge the government not to be silent on this issue any longer. We want this toxin, which is what it is, to be removed from our food supply." The Heart and Stroke Foundation says that it is urgent that someone take action because Canadians have one of the highest trans fat intakes in the world; on average, Canadians eat 4.9 grams of trans fats a day.