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Ottawa on track to ban trans fats

November 24, 2004

Ottawa, Canada - Canada is on a path to ban artificial trans fats despite charges it would "assault the entire food industry" by taking on such favourites as doughnuts and home-baking.

Members of Parliament voted 193-73 Tuesday to give the government one year to introduce either new rules or new legislation that "effectively eliminates" trans fatty acids, the cholesterol-raising fats linked to heart disease.

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