Puerto Vallarta News

Puerto Vallarta News

Mexico bans the use of trans fats in packaged foods

The Government of Mexico has modified the General Health Law to prohibit added trans fats in the industrial process of food, non-alcoholic beverages, and edible oils and fats, so there is a list of products that will be forced to change their manufacturing and processing over the next six month when the law is enforced.

The decree published in the Official Gazette of the Federation on Friday, March 24, states that products "may not contain partially hydrogenated oils, known as trans fats, that have been added during their manufacturing process in their presentation for sale to . . .

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