New York City officials are trying to calm the restaurant industry, which is fearful that last week's approval of a first-of-its-kind ban will lead to a wave of fines against kitchens that inadvertently overlook trans fats in their menu items. Restaurants will have more than a year to completely rid their food of the artificial ingredient, and a health department commissioner said the city doesn't intend to nitpick restaurants to drive up fines. "This is not going to be, like, a 'gotcha' thing," he said.
December 12, 2006 at 12:00 AM
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The original version of this story was published on Law.Com
Restaurants will have more than a year to completely rid their food of artificial trans fats, and New York City officials are promising to be gentle when it comes to enforcing the first-in-the-nation ban.
But the food industry is fearful that the ban — approved last week — will lead to an avalanche of fines against kitchens that inadvertently fail to remove trans fats from every item on the menu.
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