Metro International reports: "[New York City's] law banishing trans fat took effect in July 2008 and touched everyone with Health Department food licenses including emergency food providers."
The article tells the story of a charitable food organization that is forced to discard donations of nutritious foods that contain even traces of trans fats: "When a small church comes to the Bowery Mission bearing fried chicken with trans fat, unwittingly breaking the law, they're told 'thank you.' Then workers quietly chuck the food, mission director Tom Bastile said. 'It's always hard for us to do,' Basile said. 'We know we have to do it.'"
"This is an awful story," says ACSH's Dr. Elizabeth Whelan. "This is what it has come to: throwing out wholesome food when a hungry person could eat it because of the phantom risks of trans fats. Sometimes you need examples like this to bring people to their senses."
