Economic trends in fats and oils

will be given to the manufac tu re of products with increasing chemical homogeneity, i.e., more near ly pure compounds. At any rate it will be necessary to know more about the nature of any impuri t ies present in the materials. This will be essential in order to profitably produce competit ive products. This indust ry should realize that customers will not continue indefinitely to buy a product which is contaminated with an unwanted and undesirable component. Indicat ions are that the development of diversified markets will tend to lead f a t ty acid producers and processors into a much greater var ie ty of manufactur ing and processing operations. In fact, it seems probable that the indus t ry as a whole will largely assume the characteristics and become a segment of the chemical industry. R E F E R E N C E S