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On the Web
- ConsumerReports - The Stealth Fat - Article describing the prevalence of trans fats in packaged foods, the controversy over labeling trans fat content, and buying recommendations.
- Revealing Trans Fats - FDA consumer article provides awareness of the risk posed by consuming too much saturated fat, trans fat, and cholesterol.
- Ban Trans Fats - Advocacy site urging the banning of trans fatty acids. Contains consumer and product news and information on trans fats.
- Nutrition Action Healthletter - Trans Fat - Article provide consumers with recommendations for avoiding trans fats when eating out.
- Transforming Perceptions About Trans Fatty Acids - Article examining adverse health claims made against the trans fats used to replace saturated fats in prepared foods.
- Questions and Answers on Trans Fat Proposed Rule - 1999 FDA report explaining the composition of trans fats and proposed label standards.
- American Heart Association -Trans Fat Overview - Reports on recent studies that show potential cholesterol-raising effects of trans fatty acids have raised public concern about the use of margarine and whether other options, including butter, might be better choices.
- Trans Fatty Acids and Coronary Heart Disease - Havard University School of Publich Health provides a scientific overview of trans fats produced through partial hydrogenation, the process of heating vegetable oils in the presence of metal catalysts and hydrogen.
- In the Matter of Food Labeling: Trans Fatty Acids in Nutrition Labeling, Nutrient Content Claims and Health Claims; Reopening of the Comment Period - Report to the FDA featuring background information and scientific evidence on trans fatty acids.
- Institute of Food Science and Technology - Trans Fatty Acids - Position paper explaining the sources of trans fatty acids, their links to coronary heart disease, and recommendations.
Wikipedia Articles
- Trans fat - Trans fat is the common name for a type of unsaturated fat with trans isomer fatty acid(s). Trans fats may be monounsaturated or polyunsaturated.
- Wilhelm Normann - Wilhelm Normann (January 16, 1870, Petershagen - May 1, 1939, Chemnitz) (sometimes also spelled Norman) was a German chemist who introduced the hydrogenation of fats in 1901, creating what later became known as trans fats. This invention, protected by German patent 141,029 in 1902 had a profound influence on the production of margarine and so-called vegetable shortening.
- Elaidinisation - Elaidinisation is a chemical reaction which alters the orientation of double-bonds from cis- to trans-. It is most often performed on fats and oils to increase both the melting point and the shelf life without reducing the degree of unsaturation.