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Article: New FDA labelling regulation seen to benefit coconut oil exports to US.(Business)
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- Manila Bulletin
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- October 30, 2005
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Byline: MELODY M. AGUIBA
A new US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) regulation mandating labelling of trans-fat contents in all manufactured foods is anticipated to benefit the Philippines' healthy, medium-chain fatty acid coconut oil largely exported to the US.
Philippine Coconut Authority (PCA) Administrator Jesus Emmanuel M. Paras said the labeling regulation will increase markets for the country's coconut oil, even the nutritional-pharmaceutical product virgin coconut oil (VCO) that health authorities now recognize.
Coconut oil has at least 94 percent saturated fat, a medium-chain fatty acid rather than the health hazard long chain fatty ...