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Trans fat was one of the Natural sciences good articles, but it has been removed from the list. There are suggestions below for improving the article to meet the good article criteria. Once these issues have been addressed, the article can be renominated. Editors may also seek a reassessment of the decision if they believe there was a mistake.

Article milestones
Date	Process	Result
November 10, 2006	Peer review	Reviewed
January 31, 2007	Featured article candidate	Not promoted
September 13, 2007	Good article nominee	Listed
April 18, 2013	Good article reassessment	Delisted
A news item involving this article was featured on Wikipedia's Main Page in the "In the news" column on June 17, 2015.
Current status: Delisted good article

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History section is incomplete

The history section is about hydrogenation technology, but this article is about trans fat. Needed:

trim or move (wholesale) the hydrogenation technology to fat hydrogenation.
history of rumen-derived trans fats: discovery, biosynthesis, health effects.
maybe more details on effect of heat on conversion of unsaturated fats to trans fats.

--Smokefoot (talk) 23:56, 23 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Updated History Section

Hi folks, I did a lot of editing to this article back in the mid-2000s. Just popping in to see how things have developed, and the page generally looks good.

While I still intend to leave the article in the capable hands of others, I did spend some time updating the history section. And I think it is worth a note here about these changes.

Originally, I was motivated to clarify the role of the U.S.-based Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI) in the trans fat debate. The article has become unbalanced over the years when mentioning CSPI's role in getting trans fats banned, as it had lost the mention that CSPI originally played a role in promoting the use of trans fats (see some prior discussion of this in a prior talk page section).

But I decided on a broader update to the end of the history section to also include newer developments. This is because I came across newer peer-reviewed articles on the history of trans fat regulation. Notably the 2012 Technology and Culture article by David Schleifer (based on his Ph.D. research) is a thorough and reliable peer-reviewed primary source for this historical element. Also, I thought we could cover the WHO's global consensus to phase trans fats out.

So what I did is stick with the three-paragraph structure we had at the end of the history section (one on health concerns with saturated fats, one on the health concerns with the trans fats that replaced them, and then a third on phasing it out globally). I reworked these paragraphs to reflect the newer sources, including changing some of the material to be more accurate based on the academic work done by Schleifer.

p.s. I agree this article should never have been merged into Fat, and regret that the botched merge and restore discarded our long editing history on this page. This made it hard to find the original 2008 Trans Fat text. However, should anyone else need to dig into the archives, I found the old versions and editing history at this link -- cmh^TC 18:43, 22 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

"Partially hydrogenated soybean oil" listed at Redirects for discussion

The redirect Partially hydrogenated soybean oil has been listed at redirects for discussion to determine whether its use and function meets the redirect guidelines. Readers of this page are welcome to comment on this redirect at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2023 August 6 § Partially hydrogenated soybean oil until a consensus is reached. Jay 💬 05:20, 6 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Molecular models should be equalized

Under "Structure" the unsaturated fatty acids use a space filling model and the saturated one a ball and stick model. They should use the same type of model in order to cause less confusion.

I'd suggest using the ball and stick model for every molecule, because the bond orders are of importance here 2A02:908:E855:AA00:1805:6158:9350:3754 (talk) 11:57, 23 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Structural formula for elaidic acid is incorrect

In the table in the "Structutre" section, the structural formula for eladic acid shows a 16-carbon chain, but Eladic acid had an 18-carbon chain. I would use the image that is used in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elaidic_acid , but the image is in the opposite orientation from the other structural formulas in the table. 32.221.113.244 (talk) 18:06, 18 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]