Overall Rating Gold - expired
Overall Score 68.77
Liaison Lexi Brewer
Submission Date July 25, 2012
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STARS v1.1

University of Puget Sound
OP-T2-5: Trans-Fats

Status Score Responsible Party
Complete 0.25 / 0.25 John Hickey
Associate Vice President of Business Services/Community Engagment
Business Services
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Does the institution use frying oil that does not include trans-fats and seek to avoid foods that include trans-fats in its dining operations?:
Yes

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A brief description of the trans-fats avoidance program, policy, or practice:
Frying oil is Wesson Oil SmartBlend, which has zero grams of trans-fats as certified by the independent company FryTest.com (their mission statement: ‘We exist solely to provide unbiased information about the different zero trans fat cooking oils and other zero trans fat products on the market today’). We avoid trans-fats. Our cooking oils and virtually all of our baked goods are trans-fat free (including breads, donuts, muffins and cookies).

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The website URL where information about the program, policy, or practice is available:
Data source(s) and notes about the submission:
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