From: Julie Miller Jones [jmjones3@uswest.net]
Sent: Wednesday, December 13, 2000 10:28 AM
To: FDADockets@oc.fda.gov
Subject: trans fats

Dear Colleagues:

I have been a professor of nutrition at the College of St. Catherine in
St. Paul, MN for 27 years.  I am writing about the labeling proposal
regarding trans fatty acids (Federal Register of November 17, 1999 (64
FR 62746).  

I think it is important to have the trans fat amounts appear on the
label, but I think it should be its own category, not lumped with
saturated fat.  It is my contention that this will only further confuse
the consumer as more information comes out which shows that trans fat
may behave physiologically in a similar way to saturated fats with
respect to cholesterol, but may have differing physiological effects for
other aspects.  Please make trans fats a separate label category.

Julie Miller Jones, Ph.D., L.N., C.N.S.
Professor of Nutrition
College of St. Catherine
St. Paul, MN 55105