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Letter: For the record

Published 31 January 2007

• We quoted Steen Stender as saying that Denmark has seen a 20 per cent fall in deaths from heart disease since the 2003 ban on trans-fats (6 January, p 13). He clarifies that there was a 20 per cent fall between 2000 and 2005.

Issue no. 2589 published 3 February 2007

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