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Reliability of fatty acid values purporting to represent composition of oil from different species of fish

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Journal of the American Oil Chemists’ Society

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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.

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Stansby, M.E. Reliability of fatty acid values purporting to represent composition of oil from different species of fish. J Am Oil Chem Soc 58, 13–16 (1981). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02666045

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