ABSTRACT - Food and Drug Administration will require food processors to include amount of artery-clogging trans fatty acids on nutrition labels; experts believe new requirement, which takes effect in 2006 and which does not apply to restaurants, will nevertheless convince them to lower levels of trans fats in their food and provide information to their customers; Dr Walter Willett of Harvard School of Public Health suggests that fast food restaurants that serve foods high in trans fats with no warning label may be sued by customers who later have heart attacks; some scientists think trans fats, which are actively added to foods, are at least as bad as saturated fats, and some think trans fats are worse; McDonald's, which announced last year that it would switch to oil with no trans fats for cooking its french fries, has never made that switch and says it is still conducting tests; chart showing new food label (M)


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