Trans fat study
This article was originally published in The Tan Sheet
Executive Summary
Systematic study of public's understanding of quantitative trans fat information on nutrition labels will involve 600,000 households, FDA announces in April 8 Federal Register notice. Participants age 18 and above will be randomly assigned to one of 124 experimental situations and "will view two-dimensional color mock-ups" of margarine, pound cake and cracker labels. Study prompted by results from independent studies showing consumers do not have "appropriate understanding of the dietary significance of trans fat relative to other fatty acids"...