ABSTRACT
I. INTRODUCTION As indicated in the preface, this book is concerned with sources of lipids having modified fatty acid composition. Other chapters have covered single commodities such as fish oils, palm oil, and milk and butter. This chapter, first designated ''Oils from Genetically Modified Oilseeds,'' has been altered to ''Vegetable Oils with Fatty Acid Composition Changed by Plant Breeding or by Genetic Modification" to include changes made both by conventional oilseed breeding and by genetic modification. For many users of commodity oils the changed fatty acid composition is of primary importance and the method by which that is achieved is of secondary importance. That is true until we consider the concerns of consumers opposed to genetically modified products.
