At ninety-eight, Fred Kummerow sued the Food and Drug Administration. He was a biochemist at the University of Illinois, born in Germany, and he had been trying to get someone to listen for a very long time. In 1957 he took samples from the arteries of people who had died of heart attacks and iden
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Biochemist Fred Kummerow, at age 98, sued the FDA over trans fat regulation, decades after his 1957 research linked trans fat to heart disease.
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RT @SamaHoole: At ninety-eight, Fred Kummerow sued the Food and Drug Administration. He was a biochemist at the University of Illinois, bo…
@brendaneich
Jul 13, 2026
At ninety-eight, Fred Kummerow sued the Food and Drug Administration. He was a biochemist at the University of Illinois, born in Germany, and he had been trying to get someone to listen for a very long time. In 1957 he took samples from the arteries of people who had died of heart attacks and iden
@brendaneich
Jul 13, 2026