Texas Senate Bill 25 (89th Legislature, 2025) lists this substance among 44 ingredients that trigger a mandatory consumer warning label under Texas Health & Safety Code Sec. 431.0815. The label reads: "WARNING: This product contains an ingredient that is not recommended for human consumption by the appropriate authority in Australia, Canada, the European Union, or the United Kingdom." It applies to food labels developed or copyrighted on or after January 1, 2027. On February 11, 2026 the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas preliminarily enjoined enforcement against the plaintiff trade groups and their members; Texas appealed to the Fifth Circuit on March 5, 2026.
Named in Texas SB 25 (2025) among 44 ingredients requiring a consumer warning label: "not recommended for human consumption by the appropriate authority in Australia, Canada, the European Union, or the United Kingdom." The requirement applies to labels developed or copyrighted on or after Jan 1, 2027, and was preliminarily enjoined by a federal court (W.D. Tex., Feb 11 2026); Texas’s appeal is pending at the Fifth Circuit.
As of 2023, a total of 53 countries had best practice policies in place for tackling industrial trans fat in food, protecting 3.7 billion people (46% of the world's population); however more than 4 billion people remain unprotected from this toxic chemical globally.
WHO's 2024 five-year milestone report confirms ongoing global action to eliminate industrially produced trans fat, with 53 countries adopting best-practice policies by 2023 while over 4 billion people remain unprotected.
WHO today released REPLACE, a step-by-step guide for the elimination of industrially-produced trans-fatty acids from the global food supply. Every year, trans fat intake leads to more than 500,000 deaths of people from cardiovascular disease.
WHO launched the REPLACE action package (2018) calling for complete elimination of industrially produced trans fat from the global food supply, attributing more than 500,000 cardiovascular deaths per year to trans fat intake.
There is no longer a consensus among qualified experts that partially hydrogenated oils (PHOs), which are the primary dietary source of industrially-produced trans fatty acids (IP-TFA), are generally recognized as safe (GRAS) for any use in human food. Affected parties must comply no later than June 18, 2018.
FDA made a final determination that PHOs (the main source of artificial trans fat) are not GRAS for any use in human food, regulating them as food additives requiring premarket approval; primary compliance date June 18, 2018.
In 2015 the FDA determined that partially hydrogenated oils - the primary dietary source of artificial trans fat - are no longer "generally recognized as safe" (GRAS) for use in human food.
In 2015 the FDA determined that partially hydrogenated oils - the primary dietary source of artificial trans fat - are no longer "generally recognized as safe" (GRAS) for use in human food.