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TRENTON, N.J. (AP) - A New Jersey senator wants to keep unhealthy food off the plates of fellow residents by banning from restaurants a cooking oil blamed for upping cholesterol levels and health care costs.
State Sen. Ellen Karcher plans to introduce legislation that would bar trans fats from being served by New Jersey restaurants. Such a ban would prohibit chefs from using partially hydrogenated vegetable oil, which has been in some types of shortening and frying oil for decades.
Karcher said she got her idea from New York City officials who recently proposed banning trans fats from city restaurants and food carts.
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