University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign emeritus veterinary biosciences professor Fred Kummerow, who is 94, has spent nearly six decades studying lipid biochemistry, and has petitioned the FDA for a ban on trans fats in food. (Photo by L. Brian Stauffer, U. of I. News Bureau)“I request to ban trans fats from the American diet.”Thus begins a 3,000-word petition to the Food and Drug Administration, the work of a man on a dogged, decades-old crusade to eradicate trans fats from food.Fred Kummero

Originally posted 2009-09-04 04:09:54.