Sunita Narain, well - known for her exposure of soft drink giants Pepsi and Coca - Cola for the high pesticide content in 2003, has now found the edible oil industry, especially the vanaspati sector, guilty of selling their products with high trans fat levels. (fnbnews.com)
The coconut industry has suffered more than three decades of abusive rhetoric from the consumer activist group Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI), from the American Soybean Association (ASA) and other members of the edible oil industry, and from those in the medical and scientific community who learned their misinformation from groups like CSPI and ASA. (coconutoil-online.com)
The edible oil industry's response at that time was to claim it was only the saturated fat in the hydrogenated oils that was causing the problem. (coconutoil-online.com)