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Reliability of fatty acid values purporting to represent composition of oil from different species of fish
Author(s) -
Stansby M. E.
Publication year - 1981
Publication title -
journal of the american oil chemists' society
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.512
H-Index - 117
eISSN - 1558-9331
pISSN - 0003-021X
DOI - 10.1007/bf02666045
Subject(s) - fish <actinopterygii> , fish oil , composition (language) , reliability (semiconductor) , fatty acid , biology , food science , fishery , biochemistry , quantum mechanics , linguistics , philosophy , power (physics) , physics
Data reveal a very large variation in fatty acid pattern of oil from the same species of fish even when each batch of oil represents many thousands of individual fish. The necessity for using samples involving a much larger number of fish for studies to determine fatty acid patterns for a given species is emphasized. Other sources of error are considered briefly.