Tracing artificialtransfat in popular foods in Europe: a market basket investigation

To minimise the intake of industrial artificial trans fat (I-TF), nearly all European countries rely on food producers to voluntarily reduce the I-TF content in food. The objective of this study was to investigate the effect of this strategy on I-TF content in prepackaged biscuits/cakes/wafers in 2012-2013 in 20 European countries.The I-TF content was assessed in a market basket investigation. Three large supermarkets were visited in each...