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Lawmakers Debate Limiting Trans Fats in Colorado Schools

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A bill that would crack down on junk food in Colorado schools has cleared its first hurdle at the statehouse. The measure would ban trans fats in public schools. While lawmakers watered down the bill, it would still go farther than similar bans in other states.

KUNC’s State Capitol Reporter Bente Birkeland has more.

Bente Birkeland is an award-winning journalist who joined Colorado Public Radio in August 2018 after a decade of reporting on the Colorado state capitol for the Rocky Mountain Community Radio collaborative and KUNC. In 2017, Bente was named Colorado Journalist of the Year by the Society of Professional Journalists (SPJ), and she was awarded with a National Investigative Reporting Award by SPJ a year later.
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