KFC to Switch to Oil With No Trans Fat

April 30th, 2007 By BRUCE SCHREINER, Associated Press Writer

(AP) -- KFC's fried chicken buckets soon will be stamped with a health message along with the famous likeness of its founder, Colonel Harland Sanders. The banner proclaims that its chicken has zero grams of trans fat per serving.

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