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Faculty Faculty member Affiliation Professor Ahmet Fuat PCCS Council Member and GPSI Cardiology, County Durham Professor Chris Gale Professor of Cardiovascular Medicine and Honorary Consultant Cardiologist, University of Leeds Dr Guy Lloyd Consultant Cardiologist, Barts Heart Centre and Honorary Secretary, BCS Helen Williams National Specialty Adviser for CVD Prevention, NHSE & NHSI and Consultant Pharmacist for CVD, SE London CCG and UCL Partners Dr Jim Moore President of the PCCS and GPSI Cardiology, Gloucestershire Trudie Lobban, MBE Founder of the AF Association Professor Vijay Kunadian Professor of Interventional

The study, published in the Bulletin of the World Health Organization, was conducted by a team led by Dr Martin O’Flaherty (University of Liverpool). They note that although the UK has made modest dietary improvements over the past decade, the current goals are “clearly insufficient longer term”. They point out that Denmark banned trans fats in 2004, and many other countries are now also aggressively working to eliminate them. They say that “voluntary agreements” with the processed food industry generally fail, and that further improvements resembling those attained by other countries are achievable through stricter dietary policies