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U.S. News and World Report: WHO estimates that eating trans fats — commonly found in baked and processed foods — leads to the deaths of more than 500,000 people from heart disease every year.

Vox: For the first time ever, global health officials have asked countries to completely banish trans fat from the entire food supply.

Wall Street Journal: The World Health Organization is launching an initiative to eliminate trans fats from diets globally, pressing makers of foods and oils, and governments, to accelerate work to prevent hundreds of thousands of deaths from heart disease each year.

CNN: The World Health Organization wants to eliminate artificial trans fats from the global food supply and has a step-by-step strategy on how to do so by 2023.

Associated Press: The United Nations agency has in the past pushed to exterminate infectious diseases, but now it’s aiming to erase a hazard linked to chronic illness.

Reuters: Trans fats are popular with manufacturers of fried, baked and snack foods because they have a long shelf life, but they are bad for consumers, increasing heart disease risk by 21 percent and deaths by 28 percent, a WHO statement said.

The Telegraph: "The elimination of industrial trans fats from food is feasible and is being done but mostly in high income and western countries. We need to extend these efforts to all countries," said Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, WHO Director-General.

NBC News: The World Health Organization (WHO) urged all countries to get rid of trans fats in their food supply, with laws banning them if necessary.

U.S. News and World Report: Organizations announced an initiative called REPLACE, an acronym with six action items that are directed at the sustained elimination of industrially-produced trans fats.

Voice of America: REPLACE, a new global health plan is being rolled out by the World Health Organization, along with a health initiative called Resolve to Save Lives. The goal is to prevent half a million people a year from dying of heart disease.