ABSTRACT
Relatively little research has been done on improvements aimed specifically at safflower analyses. Primarily, developments worked out in other fields have been adapted to safflower work. Certainly the development of the gas-liquid chromato graph (GLC) has impacted vegetable oil chemistry in much the same manner that the fax machine has changed communication and the CD has changed the enjoyment of recorded music. In 1970, the AOCS Smalley Gas Chromatography Check Program showed that GLC analysis was as reliable as most people already felt it was, and safflower oil was the easiest oil to measure the fatty acid distribution with GLC (1).
