Determination of Fatty Acids in Butter Fat: I*

INTRODUCTION Since reporting a method (14) 2 for the determination of stearic acid in butter fat, work has been continued with a view of evolving a process for determining some of the remaining fatty acids. The object of the investigation was to deduce practical analytical methods which might serve to measure the effect of feed upon the composition of the resulting butter fat. Such methods, however, if quantitative and reasonably workable, would be applicable to other fixed oils and fats and play a part in the so-called technical examination of such products.