Nonagenarian researcher petitions FDA to ban trans fats

Thursday, September 3, 2009 - 11:21 in Health & Medicine

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- "I request to ban trans fats from the American diet." Thus begins a 3,000-word petition to the Food and Drug Administration, the work of a man on a dogged, decades-old crusade to eradicate trans fats from food.

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