Eight countries have taken action
Under the 2008 Declaration of Rio de Janeiro, food manufacturers in the Americas voluntarily agreed to remove PHOs from their products.
“While significant progress has been made, elimination has not been achieved and an important lesson was learned: voluntary measures [are] not enough,” said PAHO.
In the past 10 years, only eight countries in the Americas have adopted regulatory measures to limit industrial trans fats in food.
Chile began in 2009, followed by Argentina, Colombia, Ecuador, the US, Peru, Canada and, most recently, Uruguay in 2018.
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