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- The Food Safety and Standards Authority of India recently announced that all edible refined oils, vegetable fat spreads, Vanaspati, margarines, Bakery shortening and mixed fat spreads can contain only 3% or less trans fats.
- It also aims at reducing it to 2% by the year 2022.
- India in 2011 had first passed a regulation which had set a limit of 10%.
- It was further reduced to 5% in 2015.
- The World Health Organisation has called for global elimination of trans fat by 2023.
- The trans fats are created artificially during the hydrogenation process of vegetable oils.
- They result in partially hydrogenated vegetable oils.
- These partially hydrogenated vegetable oils are the major source of Trans fats.
- Consumption of Trans fats results in heart diseases.
- India has the highest burden of heart diseases due to high trans-fat in the world.
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