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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS The authors extend appreciation to Mr. Bruce Dahl and Mr. Andy Swenson for their constructive comments and suggestions. Special thanks go to Ms. Judy Normann, who helped to prepare the manuscript.

by these industries has however been limited by a number of factors, the most important being the inability of vegetable oil production to compete with the low price of mineral oil. The vegetable oil industry has therefore focused on producing oil for food and food processing uses. In 2005 for example, world oilseed

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