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Trans fats enquiry

Sunday, 14 October 2007

The food industry faces a government inquiry into its role in Britain’s surging obesity and heart disease rates with ministers considering a ban on trans fats as the first decisive step. The inquiry was ordered by Alan Johnson, the health secretary, following a series of warnings from successive health ministers that the food industry needed to improve the healthiness of its products - most of which have been ignored. He said “We know we must act. We cannot afford not to act. For the first time we are clear about the magnitude of the problem: we are facing a potential crisis on the scale of climate change and it is in everybody’s interest to turn things around.” Read the full report in The Sunday Times No one has commented on this article. Please login or register to post comments.