ANKARA UNIVERSITY REPORT: NO TRANS FAT IN MARGARINES!

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Ankara University Report: No trans fat in margarines!

The absence of trans fat in margarine produced in Turkey has been scientifically proven once again.

The Turkish margarine industry, under the leadership of Culinary Products and Margarine Industrialists Association (MÜMSAD) signed a success story that would set an example for the world 12 years ago.

The trans-fat level in the margarines collected randomly from the market, analyzed at the Food Engineering Laboratory of the Faculty of Engineering at Ankara University, was below the 1 percent limit (0.18-0.76 percent), which was scientifically considered to be null.

Ebru Akdağ, the General Coordinator of MÜMSAD, said that “There is no trans fat” logo has been registered with MÜMSAD since 2008 and that the margarine products of MÜMSAD member companies that have been on shelves since 2007 are trans-fat free.
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MÜMSAD, which set an example to the world with the voluntary application it started 12 years ago on the elimination of trans fats, which are on the agenda of the whole world, shared the latest report about the margarines analyzed within the scope of Auto Control Project.

MÜMSAD collects margarines of its members and non-member companies from shelves at different times and has them checked in accredited university laboratories.

In this framework Ebru Akdağ also pointed out that the trans fat level in 24 different brands of margarine increased in the range of 0.18-0.76 percent in the latest analyzes conducted at the Food Engineering Laboratory of Ankara University Faculty of Engineering.

"That's below the level," she noted.

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