Good move but hope they still taste OK.

Goodbye to fatty pies
9:45AM Sunday February 25, 2007
By Michelle Coursey

The end may be nigh for the Kiwi pie as we know it. A new national group of business and health industry representatives, called the Pie Group, is planning to give the favourite New Zealand "maggot pack" a nutritional makeover.

Representatives from the Baking Industry Association of New Zealand, the Food Industry Group, ingredient suppliers, pie makers, the NZ Heart Foundation, the Auckland Regional Public Health Service and the Ministry of Health make up the group.

Its aim is to formulate new standards for pie-making that will reduce the fat content, and combat the "golf ball of fat per pie" myth.

The idea is based on the Chip Group, a similar initiative that set guidelines for reducing fat in hot chips by up to 20 per cent.

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