   DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH & HUMAN SERVICES default		         		Public
Health Service

 ADVANCE \r360  ADVANCE \d3 	Food and Drug Administration

 ADVANCE \r360 	Rockville, MD  20857

July 22, 2004

Mr. Benjamin Cohen

CSPI

1875 Connecticut Avenue, N.W.

Suite 300

Washington,  D.C.  20009-5728

Dear Mr. Cohen:    

Your petition requesting the Food and Drug Administration to require
restaurants to

 indicate that the food that they serve contains trans fat from
partially hydrogenated

 vegetable oils, was received by this office on 07/22/2004.  It was
assigned docket number 2004P-0328/CP 1 and it was filed on 07/22/2004. 
Please refer to this docket number in future correspondence on this
subject with the Agency.

Please note that the acceptance of the petition for filing is a
procedural matter in that 

it in no way reflects an agency decision on the substantive merits of
the petition.

Sincerely,

Lyle D. Jaffe 

Division of Dockets Management

Office of Management Programs

Office of Management

                  

