1. Cottonseed oil and corn oil contain about 40% of linoleic acid.
2. It has not yet been established whether large doses of soybean oil cause in man an increase in the blood uric acid as fats in general do. In 1926 a theory was advanced by the writer (9) that the fat absorbed by the organism is carried, at least in part, to the vicinity of nucleins in the cells, from where the phosphoric acid is taken (to convert the fat into lecithin), thus setting the purine bodies free (or in combination with substances like d— ribose). In hens, a high fat ration does not produce any noticeable rise in the blood uric acid (13).
3. Of the species Penicilium, Fusarium, and Monilia.
4. Old oily sediments from the sedimentation tanks produce the highest fat—splitting effect upon the oil.
5. The writer showed in 1926 that feeding raw soybeans to animals is capable of producing fat necrosis due to lipase activity (10). More recent experimental data by other authors give support to such an assumption (17).