Submission + - 'Bad fats' ban in NYC restaurants
gollum123 writes: "New York City's Board of Health has voted to ban artery-clogging trans-fats from the city's restaurants ( http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/6210600.stm ). The unanimous vote makes the city the first in the US to ban the fats, although the original strict deadline to comply has been lengthened. Restaurants will be banned from using most frying oils containing trans-fats from 1 July, and will have to eliminate the fats from all foods by 1 July 2008."