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Y! Health Nutrition News
Y! Health Nutrition News, updated continuously.

• A tomato by any other name? Experts set food rules (Reuters)

  Posted on 4 Jul 2008 at 1:41 pm
  Reuters - Food safety experts agreed for the first time on the qualities defining a tomato, in a first step toward an international code on preventing fruit and vegetable contamination.
  

• Rotting cheese recycled in Italian food scam: report (AFP)

  Posted on 4 Jul 2008 at 11:39 am
  AFP - Eleven thousand tonnes of rotting or out-of-date cheese from European dairies were mixed with fresh products and resold, according to an Italian police investigation reported by La Repubblica on Friday.
  

• FDA must require tracking of produce: food groups (Reuters)

  Posted on 3 Jul 2008 at 4:33 pm
  Reuters - As more Americans get sick while health officials look for the cause of a salmonella outbreak sweeping the country, consumer groups said on Thursday the Food and Drug Administration must put emergency rules in place to track the movement of produce.
  

• U.S. Officials Stymied in Salmonella Search (HealthDay)

  Posted on 1 Jul 2008 at 11:46 pm
  HealthDay - TUESDAY, July 1 (HealthDay News) -- With the number of people sickened in the nationwide salmonella outbreak now standing at 869, with 107 hospitalizations, U.S. officials acknowledged Tuesday that they were no closer to identifying the source of the contaminant.
  

• New York restaurants go trans fat-free (AFP)

  Posted on 1 Jul 2008 at 7:22 am
  AFP - Artificial trans fats will be off the menu in New York restaurants from Tuesday, as city authorities seek to remove a major cause of heart disease from their residents' diets.
  

• Trans Fat Labeling Gets Tricky (HealthDay)

  Posted on 30 Jun 2008 at 11:46 pm
  HealthDay - MONDAY, June 30 (HealthDay News) -- Are 3 or 4 grams of trans fats in a serving of baked or fried food bad for you, or can you stop worrying?
  

• Population-Based Strategy Urged to Cut U.S. Obesity Rate (HealthDay)

  Posted on 30 Jun 2008 at 11:46 pm
  HealthDay - MONDAY, June 30 (HealthDay News) -- Reducing the high rate of obesity in the United States requires a comprehensive, population-based strategy, says a new American Heart Association (AHA) scientific statement.
  

• Fast food chains ditch trans fats to meet NYC ban (AP)

  Posted on 29 Jun 2008 at 8:40 pm
  AP - Fast food restaurants have been changing their recipes to adapt to New York City's trans fat ban. Here are some of the menu overhauls at major chains:
  

• NYC keeps the cannoli but drops the trans fats (AP)

  Posted on 29 Jun 2008 at 8:39 pm
  AP - Making cannoli is serious business in New York. It's a dessert so tempting that even a hit man in the "Godfather" couldn't leave a box behind.