International News on Fats, Oils and Related Materials : INFORM back issues from October 2007:
Erratum
Oct 01, 2007; ... In the September 2007 article "Is krill fishing sustainable?" a quotation attributed to Tina Sampalis contained an error. The correct quotation is as follows: "In the area of the NKO harvest in the Southern Ocean where the waters are ...
Calendar
Oct 01, 2007; ... November November 2, 2007. SCI Oils & Fats Group Hilditch Symposium: Compositional Analysis, London, United Kingdom. Information: (netlink: www.soci.org/SCI/events/details.jsp?eventID=EV1056; e-mail: alison.evans@soci.org; phone +44 (0)20 7598 1566). November 2-5, 2007 ....
Letter to the Editor
Oct 01, 2007; ... Poetic license Dear Editor: A Google search contains numerous references to a statement made by Herbert J. Dutton (1914-2006). In 1971, H. J. Dutton wrote a review article entitled, "Hydrogenation of Fats" for Progress in the Chemistry of Fats and Other Lipids, edited by Ralph T ....
See ourselves as others see us
Oct 01, 2007; ... The calendar tells us that the current year is rapidly coming to a close. Some notable events have undoubtedly occurred, but there is still sufficient time left to assess our present situation and to make adjustments as seen necessary. With the appearance of fall (autumn) in the Northern ...
Distiller's dried grains with solubles
Oct 01, 2007; ... New methods expand uses for DDGS and by-products. Ethanol production from dry grind corn is growing at a fast pace in the United States. In the last four years ethanol production has increased 126% and by 2012 is estimated to reach 12 billion gallons (45.4 billion liters). Most of this ...
the pressure to produce longer SHELF LIFE
Oct 01, 2007; ... High hydrostatic pressure processing extends shelf life, while also enhancing food quality and safety. Canning and freezing top most lists of how to preserve food. Besides these thermal processes, there are ones involving changes in water activity, such as drying or smoking, or changes ...
Rocky road to trans-free dining
Oct 01, 2007; ... Two fast-food outlets in New York City fail a trans test and a large donut chain plans for lower-trans confections. The New York City Board of Health declared in 2006 that all restaurants in the city would be prohibited as of July 1, 2007, from using any oil, shortening, or margarine ...
World markets and trade-FAS update
Oct 01, 2007; ... Forecasts and comparisons with previous years are made for world markets and trade in oilseeds, vegetable oils and meal proteins in a report released in September 2007 by the Foreign Agricultural Service (FAS) branch of the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) (netlink: ...
Sunflowerseed oil and meal markets
Oct 01, 2007; ... Sunflowerseed and oil have not been immune from the current spiraling costs of oilseeeds and vegetable oils. As Oil World noted on September 21 prices for these commodities have rallied to new all-time highs in Europe and on the global market, and have more than doubled since the previous year ....
Business News: Briefs
Oct 01, 2007; ... Philippe de Laperouse, director of HighQuest Partners' Global Food and Agribusiness Practice at St. Louis, Missouri, USA, said in an interview with the St. Louis Post-Dispatch on September 7 that rising food prices are inevitable. He noted that the current situation is a period of "agflation" ...
Earnings for U.S. oilseed processing
Oct 01, 2007; ... A report prepared by Dublin, Ireland-based Research and Markets titled Oilseed Processing Industry in The U.S. And Its Foreign Trade (1996-2008) said the industry's revenue for the year 2006 was approximately $1.54 billion. The gross profit was 22.25%, at $342.7 million, involving 34 ...
India's vegetable oil imports to continue
Oct 01, 2007; ... Slow growth of domestic output and an inability to accommodate increasing consumer demands are expected to result in India continuing to be a global leader in the import of vegetable oils until at least 2017, according to B.V. Mehta, executive director, Solvent Extractors' Association of India ...
Indonesia develops new soybean
Oct 01, 2007; ... A newly discovered soybean variety was officially launched on September 10 during a seminar on "Revitalization of Soybean seedlings to Support the Self-Production of Soybeans by 2015" held at Gadjah Mada University's School of Agriculture in Yogyakarta, Indonesia, according to a September 13 ...
Malaysian palm oil industry fights back
Oct 01, 2007; ... Malaysian Palm Oil Board (MPOB) Chairman Sabri Ahmad said that Malaysia wants all palm oil industry players to actively participate in the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) in efforts to address the misconception and negative issues surrounding palm oil plantations. He made the comments ...
China opposes non-food uses for corn
Oct 01, 2007; ... China is tightening controls on the use of corn for industrial purposes, including biofuel processing, as announced on September 21 via the Chinese government's official web portal (netlink: www.gov.cn/english/2007-09/21/content_758033.htm). China has capped the proportion of corn for ...
Forest fires destroy Greek olive groves
Oct 01, 2007; ... The worst forest fires in at least 150 years incinerated as many as 5 million olive trees and 469,000 acres (190,000 hectares) this past summer in the Peloponnese peninsula of southwestern Greece, a mountainous region known for its olive production and its historic sites such as Olympia, the ...
Industrial applications of MCT promoted
Oct 01, 2007; ... Stepan Company (headquartered at Northfield, Illinois, USA), a manufacturer of a range of medium-chain triglycerides (MCT), has been promoting their products for a wide variety of industrial and pharmaceutical applications. The delivery of functional and active ingredients is facilitated ...
Biofuels News: Briefs
Oct 01, 2007; ... Scientists from the University of California-Irvine (UCI) (USA) and CODA Genomics (Laguna Hills, California) are partnering on new research aimed at turning a common strain of yeast used in the production of beer, wine, and bread into an efficient producer of ethanol. Researchers at ...
Call to reduce biofuels target
Oct 01, 2007; ... Friends of the Earth (London, United Kingdom) called on the European Union to scrap its 10% target for using plant-based biofuels for transport, after a leaked paper revealed that the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) has grave concerns about its social and ...
Malaysian CPO production to fall
Oct 01, 2007; ... According to The New Straits Times Press (Malaysia) Bhd., Malaysia's crude palm oil (CPO) production is expected to fall this year, and prices are expected to rise. Malaysian Palm Oil Board (MPOB) Chairman Datuk Sabri Ahmad was quoted as saying, "It has been a good year for the past two years, ...
Syngenta develops tropical sugar beet
Oct 01, 2007; ... Syngenta (Basel, Switzerland) has introduced sugar beet in India for cultivation in tropical climatic conditions. Tropical sugar beet brings significant agronomic, environmental, and output advantages to Indian farming and the Indian economy. The beet delivers similar output yields to sugar cane ...
Brazil-based IBI builds in Argentina
Oct 01, 2007; ... Integrated Biodiesel Industries, Ltd. (IBI), with home offices in Sao Paulo, Brazil, initiated works for a 25,000 metric tons (MT)/yr plant in the city of Rosario, Argentina. This plant will be fully owned by IBI, differently from other minority acquisitions that have been discussed lately with ...
Canada looks to renewable fuels
Oct 01, 2007; ... The future of renewable fuels in Canada took a step forward on September 12 with the launch of the NextGen Biofuels Fund(TM). The new fund, with $500 million in funding provided by the Government of Canada, will be managed by Sustainable Development Technology Canada (SDTC). "The NextGen ...
REG's biodiesel growth gets notice
Oct 01, 2007; ... Renewable Energy Group® Inc. (REG®) has been named one of the United States' fastest growing private companies by Inc. Magazine. REG was singled out as the first biodiesel company to make the Inc. 500 list and is the seventh-fastest-growing energy company nationwide. REG comes in at #200 overall ...
Synergy Drive to make, market palm oil
Oct 01, 2007; ... Shareholders of the Malaysian companies Highlands & Lowlands Bhd. and Guthrie Ropel Bhd., subsidiaries of Kumpulan Guthrie Bhd. (KGB), voted on August 24 in favor of the proposed merger of KGB, Golden Hope Plantations Bhd., and Sime Darby Bhd. groups of companies under the name Synergy ...
Added-yield soybean varieties introduced
Oct 01, 2007; ... DuPont, through its wholly owned subsidiary Pioneer Hi-Bred International (Des Moines, Iowa, USA), announced on September 21 its commercialization of soybean varieties that can provide increased yields by as much as 12% per acre. Five varieties will be available for 2008 planting, pending ...
GM oilseed sales to triple
Oct 01, 2007; ... Monsanto Company (St. Louis, Missouri, USA) said on September 26 that it could triple the amount of farming acres planted worldwide with its genetically modified (GM) seeds. "Strong global adoption of our (seeds) coupled with recent approvals paves the way for expanded growth and sets ...
Biotechnology News: Briefs
Oct 01, 2007; ... Monsanto Company announced on September 10 that it had completed construction of a new data center on the west side of its world headquarters campus in Creve Coeur, Missouri, USA. The $21 million, 40,000-square-foot building will provide for the company's growing global and computation needs ....
Eight-way gene stack for corn
Oct 01, 2007; ... Dow AgroSciences LLC (Indianapolis, Indiana, USA) announced on September 14 that it had reached a cross-licensing agreement with the Monsanto Company that breaks new ground in the commercialization of gene stack technology. The agreement is aimed at launching SmartStax(TM), the most ...
Opposition in EU to GM corn continues
Oct 01, 2007; ... Agriculture ministers from 10 member countries of the European Union (EU-27) continued to oppose the approval of three GM varieties of maize (corn) on the European market, reflecting the ongoing deep divisions among EU nations over whether GM crops pose a risk to human or animal health. The ...
India grants processed food/GMO exemption
Oct 01, 2007; ... In a move that can be expected to have a significant bearing on the food processing industry in India, the government has announced its intention, as reported by the September 26 edition of The Indian Express, to allow processed food containing GMO to be exempt from regulatory ...
GM crops found to be sustainable
Oct 01, 2007; ... A new six-year cropping study undertaken by the University of Guelph in the Province of Ontario, Canada, and Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada (AAFC) on the agronomic fit of Roundup® corn and Roundup Ready® soybeans in Eastern Canadian cropping systems has confirmed that incorporating the Roundup ...
Argentina to begin GM corn tracking
Oct 01, 2007; ... Argentina is to track corn grown from a recently approved transgenic bundled trait to avoid shipping that type of grain to the European Union, according to a resolution published in the government's official bulletin on September 24 and reported by All-AboutFeed.com. The trait has no EU ...
DHA production plant slated in India
Oct 01, 2007; ... ABL Biotechnologies Ltd. (Chennai [formerly Madras], Tamil Nadu, India) is investing Rs 40 crore ($10 million) to establish India's first and the world's second facility for the production of docosahexaenoic acid (DHA) at its facility located at Tiruchendur, Tamil Nadu, according to a news ...
Health & Nutrition: Briefs
Oct 01, 2007; ... A European consensus committee has recommended that pregnant women take 200 mg of docosahexaenoic acid (DHA) daily to increase the likelihood of a healthy birth and boost child development. The committee, composed of more than 50 nutritional experts from the EU-funded projects known as the ...
Fat transforms ascorbic acid
Oct 01, 2007; ... Fat in the stomach may cause vitamin C to promote, rather than prevent, the formation of certain cancer-causing chemicals, reveals research published ahead of print in the journal Gut (doi: 10.1136/gut.2007.12857). Researchers-led by Kenneth McColl of the Western Infirmary in Glasgow, ...
Bone cells affect metabolism
Oct 01, 2007; ... Problems regulating blood sugar may actually begin in the bones, as new research in mice suggests that bone cells influence how the body regulates sugar. The finding could affect treatment of type 2 diabetes and indicates that bones act as endocrine organs. The team behind the research ...
Consumers rank reducing fat as top priority
Oct 01, 2007; ... Reducing intake of dietary fat is the No. 1 health concern of consumers in Europe and North America, according to a new report by Datamonitor. As obesity levels climb on both continents, consumers also want to moderate their consumption of sugar, sodium, and simple carbohydrates, author Michael ...
Mars votes for 100% cocoa butter despite industry moves
Oct 01, 2007; ... Mars Inc. has broken ranks with most of the rest of the U.S. chocolate industry by vowing it will continue to use 100% cocoa butter in its confections. The company (Hackettstown, New Jersey, USA) spoke out against an industry petition asking the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to allow ...
"Skinny" gene surfaces
Oct 01, 2007; ... Researchers have found an antiobesity gene that apparently has been keeping living things lean during periods of plenty since ancient times. The gene, first discovered in flies by another research team, also keeps worms and mice trim, according to the new report in Cell Metabolism ...
In Memoriam: Charles Carter Litchfield
Oct 01, 2007; ... A 50-year member of AOCS, Dr. Charles Carter Litchfield died on May 9, 2007, in Arlington, Virginia (USA) at the age of 75. When Litchfield joined AOCS in 1957, he was an overseas development engineer for The Procter & Gamble Co., Cincinnati, Ohio. Subsequently, he joined the ...
SODEOPEC 2008: Technical program announced
Oct 01, 2007; ... SODEOPEC 2008, the sixth in a series of conferences, will continue its tradition of covering the four expanding and interrelated areas of soaps, detergents, oleochemicals, and personal care products. The meeting will be held April 13-16, 2008, at the Hilton in the Walt Disney World Resort, Lake ...
Nestlé designates Buicke as COE
Oct 01, 2007; ... The Board of Directors of Nestle (Vevey, Switzerland) announced on September 20 its intention to propose Paul Buicke as "Administrateur délégué"/Chief Executive Officer of Nestle effective that day. He is scheduled to take over the reins of the company in April 2008. Buicke was also proposed for ...
ADM newsmakers
Oct 01, 2007; ... Archer Daniels Midland (ADM; Decatur, Illinois, USA) has had several associates profiled during the month of September 2007. Patricia Woertz, appointed president and chief executive officer on April 27, 2006 (and subsequently chairperson of the board of directors on February 6, 2007) has ...
Page named Cargill chairman
Oct 01, 2007; ... Cargill (Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA) announced on September 11 the election of Cargill Chief Executive Officer and President Gregory Page to the position of Chairman of the Board effective immediately. He succeeds Warren Staley, whose planned retirement had been announced previously ...
In Memoriam: Lloyd Horrocks
Oct 01, 2007; ... Dr. Lloyd A. Horrocks, age 75, died unexpectedly on August 18, 2007, in Columbus, Ohio, USA. Horrocks was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1932. He grew up in Michigan and Illinois, and obtained his bachelor of arts degree in chemistry at Ohio Wesleyan University, Delaware, Ohio, in 1953 and ...
In Memoriam: Wayne E. Emmons
Oct 01, 2007; ... Wayne E. Emmons of Kenner, Louisiana, USA, died on July 29, 2007. An AOCS member, Mr. Emmons was chairperson of the Lab Proficiency Working Committee from 2001 to 2006. Before that, he was a member of the laboratory Proficiency Program and ...
In Memoriam: E. Richard Sherwin
Oct 01, 2007; ... AOCS has received word that E. Richard Sherwin of Kingsport, Tennessee, USA-a long-term AOCS member-died on November 29,2006, at the age of 80. Mr. Sherwin was born in Windber, ...
2008 AM Golf Outing
Oct 01, 2007; ... We have identified the Harbour Pointe Golf Club in Mukileteo, Washington, USA, where the Golf Tournament was held in 1997, as the best and nearest, quality course for the 2008 AOCS Annual Meeting. In 1991, this venue was chosen as the best new public venue in the United States. Green fees are ...
LiveFuels hires NREL biofuel engineer
Oct 01, 2007; ... LiveFuels Inc. (Menlo Park, California, USA), a privately funded developer of algae-to-biocrude, appointed John Sheehan as vice president of Strategy and Sustainable Development in August. He has more than 16 years of experience as a strategic analyst at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) ...
Akermin names biocatalysts VP
Oct 01, 2007; ... Akermin Inc. (St. Louis, Missouri, USA), an advanced materials company focused on enzymatic biocatalyst structures that was founded in 2004 by Nick Akers and Shelley Minteer, has appointed Paul Gifford as vice president of engineering. His initial focus at Akermin will be on ...
Arnold leaves Solae Co.
Oct 01, 2007; ... Tony L. Arnold, president and chief executive of St. Louis, Missouri (USA)-based Solae Co. since 2003, resigned in August and is "pursuing other opportunities," according to a Solae spokesperson. Solae, a joint venture between DuPont and Bunge Ltd., is the country's largest provider of soy ...
JOCS' 47th Annual Meeting
Oct 01, 2007; ... Almost 600 participants attended the 47th Annual Meeting of the Japan oil Chemists' Society (JOCS) meeting in Kyoto, Japan, September 6-8,2007. The meeting included 123 oral presentations and 63 posters. Three sessions were planned in cooperation with the Chinese and Korean societies. Sessions ...
Awards for biofuels in India
Oct 01, 2007; ... At its recent summit on biofuels for the Indian market in New Delhi, Frost & Sullivan selected Nandan Biomatrix Limited and Desmet Ballestra as the recipients of the 2007 Emerging Business Model and Technology Leadership awards, respectively. These awards, says Frost & Sullivan, ...
Retirement profile: Tom Foglia
Oct 01, 2007; ... "I look forward to lowering my golf handicap," said Tom Foglia, speaking just before his retirement on September 30 as a supervisory research chemist at the Eastern Regional Research Center (ERRC) in Wyndmoor, Pennsylvania, USA. Beyond that, Foglia says that for the immediate future he will ...
Retirement profile: Gary R. List
Oct 01, 2007; ... With the retirement on October 3 of Gary R. List from the National Center for Agricultural Utilization Research (IMCAUR) in Peoria, Illinois, USA, where he is a lead scientist, comes the need to review a host of numbers. Here are just a few: He has been with NCAUR (by one name or another) and ...
Organofluorine Chemistry
Oct 01, 2007; ... Organofluorine Chemistry Ed. Kenji Uneyama, Blackwell Publishing Ltd., Oxford, UK, 2006. 352 pages, ISBN I-4051-2561-6, $199.99 The book is divided into seven chapters covering various aspects of fluorine chemistry. Chapter 1 deals with fundamentals in organic fluorine chemistry, such as ...
Patents
Oct 01, 2007; ... Published patents Early diagnosis of stroke Kleinfeld, A., Inventor (La Jolla, California, USA), 4/10/2007, US7202089 A method is described for the early detection of stroke that uses a reagent that includes a fluorescently modified fatty acid binding protein. A ...
Economic data on the web
Oct 01, 2007; ... There is a wealth of information on the web regarding microeconomic and macroeconomic data from government and commercial sources. This article will highlight some that may be of future use. The Directorate General Communication (DG COMM) has as its mission to inform the media and ...
Meet Ibrahim Gülseren
Oct 01, 2007; ... "The first time I considered having a job at a university, I was a fifth grader," says 2007 Honored Student Ibrahim Gülseren. A native of Turkey, Gülseren's PhD research focuses on the ultrasonic analysis and characterization of crystalline and semicrystalline food systems, under the supervision ...
Extracts & Distillates
Oct 01, 2007; ... FTIR fatty acid analysis Azizian, H., J.K.G. Kramer, and S. Winsborough, Factors Influencing the Fatty Acid Determination in Fats and oils Using Fourier Transform Near-Infrared Spectroscopy, Eur. J. Lipid Sci. Technol. 709:960-968, 2007. Studies on the application of Fourier ...
Student profile: Kerry Lyn Humphrey
Oct 01, 2007; ... I met my current supervisor, Dr. Suresh Narine, during a chance meeting at Trent University (Peterborough, Ontario, Canada), where I was holding a National Science and Engineering Research Council (NSERC) undergraduate summer research assistantship and completing my BSc in physics and computer ...
Feed Microscopy expands its "scope"
Oct 01, 2007; ... AOCS Division unveils new name, broader technical base A drum roll, please: The AOCS Feed Microscopy Division is now the AOCS Agricultural Microscopy Division. "The reason we changed the name is to expand the scope-no pun intended-of the technical topics we cover at the AOCS ...
Australian olive oil and the international market
Oct 01, 2007; ... Although olive trees were planted in Australia over 200 years ago, commercial interest in olive production has increased dramatically in the last 15 years. The cultivars growing in Australia are generally of Spanish, Italian, and French origin and include Arbequina, Coratina, Corregiola, ...
Field to fuel or field to fork?
Oct 01, 2007; ... Is winter canola in the future for North American oilseed growers? Transitions in the vegetable oil industry over the last several years have motivated the agricultural industry to refocus on the increased volume demands and changes in specification requirements within the global ...