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...accepted bribes for approving untested generic drugs, but an FDA that seems to be rededicated to protecting the public. Last week the FDA ordered Procter & Gamble, the manufacturer of Crisco Corn Oil, along with Best Foods, which markets Mazola Corn Oil, and Great Foods of America, maker of HeartBeat Canola Oil, to cut out the "no cholesterol" business. While Best Foods and Great Foods stalled by saying they would work with the FDA to resolve the dispute, P&G went ahead and announced it would drop the offending words from Crisco -- and also voluntarily remove the "no cholesterol" claim from...
Latest Immortality Elixir Not so long ago, the secret ingredient to lower cholesterol was oat bran, which proved to be no more or less magical than low- fiber grains. In 1990 health nuts got hooked on canola oil, which is made from rapeseed. Enough! cried Julia Child. "If fear of food continues, it will be the death of gastronomy in the United States...
...basis of canola's virtues, American sales have doubled over the past two years, though canola still accounts for only 2.3% of all oils consumed in the U.S. Four years ago, Procter & Gamble converted its Puritan cooking-oil line from a soy-sunflower blend to 100% canola. Earlier this year Dean Foods, a Virginia-based company, rolled out a margarine rich in canola. Next year Frito-Lay plans to introduce SunChips, corn chips fried in canola oil. This surge of interest has caused a boomlet in Kentucky, Tennessee and Indiana, where growers are starting to plant acreage...
...from a new strain of the plant won FDA approval as a cooking oil in 1985. Even then, manufacturers had to label products, unappetizingly, as low-erucic-acid rapeseed oil. Finally, in 1988, the FDA allowed the product to be called by the name used in Canada, where most canola is produced. Soon thereafter its reputation took...
...well the canola refrain will continue to play is anyone's guess. For one thing, the relative scarcity of domestic supplies could crimp future sales. To confuse matters more, some health researchers are beginning to question whether a reduction of cholesterol is necessarily good for everyone. Just this August, the British Medical Journal reported that low levels of cholesterol may be associated with an increased risk of suicide...