I just had a look at the proposed amendments to nutrition labelling here in Canada. I confess I paid more attention to the carbohydrate and sugar alcohols section before. It appears that the Cdn proposals, which have been on the table for over a year now, do indeed include trans fatty acids to be declared. HOWEVER .. it seems that they will be lumped together with saturated fat. So, the label will show the grams of total fat, then the breakdown of monos, polys and saturates + trans. So, you'll have no way of knowing if the label declares the food has 20g of saturates + trans ... how much of each type makes up that 20g.

Grrrrr....

Doreen