Efforts to eliminate industrially-produced fat have a long way to go with five billion people exposed to toxic fat added to many food products, the UN health agency said Monday.
The World Health Organization called in 2018 for harmful trans fatty acids to be wiped out by 2023.
They are thought to be responsible for around 500,000 premature deaths from coronary heart disease each year.
Although 43 countries with combined populations of 2.8 billion people have now implemented best-practice policies, most of the world remains unprotected, it said.
WHO acknowledged in an annual progr
