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A new resource covering the major oils and fats commodities and the major countries/regions where these commodities are produced, traded (exports and imports), and consumed for food and non-food purposes is now available on the Lipid Library web site of Dr William W. Christie (the founder of The Oily Press). The articles in Oils and Fats in the Marketplace have been written by Professor Frank D. Gunstone based on his experience in writing on market matters for Lipid Technology journal and occasionally for Inform magazine. The articles are in HTML and can be viewed free of charge.

This book has been printed and is now ready for delivery to customers. Professor Frank D. Gunstone of the Scottish Crop Research Institute, Scotland, has brought together an international team of authors to write Phospholipid Technology and Applications (ISBN 978-0-9552512-2-1, Volume 22 in The Oily Press Lipid Library). A PDF file showing the title pages, Preface, Table of Contents, and List of Contributors is now available from the web page.

Phospholipids are quickly becoming the next exciting lipid ingedient. Israeli supplier Enzymotec has entered into an agreement with Danish raw materials and ingredients supplier, Alsiano Pharma, to distribute its phospholipid ingredients throughout Scandinavia. The deal will see Enzymotec's proprietary phospholipids - `Sharp', `CardiaBeat' and `Krill Oil+' - employed in various supplement products. The company has also started collaboration with several different companies in Europe, India, Australia, South Korea and the USA, and has set up a new research centre. For more information on phospholipids see the new Oily Press book Phospholipid Technology and Applications

Omega-3 is becoming a household term and the category is fast moving into the mainstream, according to supplier Ocean Nutrition quoted in Nutraingredients.com newsletter. The newsletter also says market researcher Packaged Facts found that omega-3 enriched foods make up the strongest sector of the functional foods market in the USA, still with room for significant growth. The market for these goods has grown from approximately US$100 million to more than $2 billion in four years and is expected to reach $7 billion in sales by 2011. According to Mintel, more than 1000 products were launched worldwide in 2006 containing omega-3, with the biggest sectors coming from dairy, bakery and processed meats and fish. In the past five years more than 3000 omega-3 products have been launched worldwide, although the majority of these have been in Europe, says Nutraingredients.com.

Spectacular sales of two Oily Press books published in 2007 confirm that omega-3 fatty acids and antioxidants are scorching hot topics in the lipid area. Long-Chain Omega-3 Specialty Oils (H. Breivik) and Antioxidants in Food and Biology: Facts and Fiction (E.N. Frankel) are well on their way to being Oily Press best-sellers and the leading books on their subjects.

We have made available the proceedings of a 1995 conference on fish oil for FREE download as a PDF file from our web site. Click on Fish Oil: Technology, Nutrition and Marketing to read instructions on how to download the file.

In 2007 the American Oil Chemists' Society (AOCS) `Food Structure and Functionality Lifetime Achievement' award ($1500 honorarium and a crystal plaque) was presented to Professor Kare Larsson, co-author of the Oily Press book Lipids: Structure, Physical Properties and Functionality, for his contributions to the field of food structure. The award "honors the recipient's outstanding performance and meritorious contributions to an area of interest to the Division". His award address was entitled "On Some X-ray Structural Studies of Polar Food Lipids". (You can now see abstracts from Stig E. Friberg's new review of this book here.)

Now available - a free electronic PDF version of Dr William W. Christie's well-known Oily Press book Gas Chromatography and Lipids: A Practical Guide. Originally published in 1989, the hard copy of this book (perhaps better known to many simply as "GC & Lipids") was reprinted many times but is now out-of-print. However, demand is still strong and Dr Christie has therefore prepared two versions - a PDF file available for FREE download from this Oily Press web site and an HTML version which can be viewed on his own site.

Download the FREE electronic version of Lipid Glossary 2 from our web site. Oily Press customers can now obtain a free PDF file of this book by following the simple instructions. The authors, Professor Frank D. Gunstone and Dr Bengt G. Herslof, together with the publisher, have decided to provide this file in electronic format for free so that Lipid Glossary 2 will be as widely available as possible.

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