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This July celebrate, not only the freedom from England, but a freedom from trans fats.

For those watching fireworks in the Big Apple, starting July 1 the prepared foods you buy in restaurants, bakeries, salad bars, cafeteria, and food carts must have less than .5 grams of trans fat in each serving. (FDA guidelines give leeway of .5 grams to label a product “trans fat free.”) The one loophole: prepackaged foods (muffins in plastic baggies, salad dressing packets) are exempt.

How are fast food joints stepping up to the challenge of the trans fat ban? Well, FitSugar has the round up:

McDonald’s is serving cookies and apple pies sans trans fat (they switched to a new cooking oil last year).

Burger King is selling trans-fat free fries, apple pies, and biscuits.

Dunkin Donuts is using a new palm-soybean-cottonseed oil mix.

KFC has taken the trans fat out of the pot pie or biscuits.

Boston Market is testing a new version of their pot pie.

Let's take this ban across the country!

Photo of a now trans-fat free McDonald’s apple pie from The Food Pornographer.