Abstract
Prior to 1985, there were less than 20,000 hectares of rapeseed and canola cultivation annually in the United States. In 1985, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) granted GRAS (generally recognized as safe) status to low erucic acid rapeseed (canola) oil (National Archives and Records 1985). As the fatty acid composition of canola oil has been increasingly recognized by nutritionists as beneficial in human diets, domestic consumption of imported canola oil has increased (Foreign Agricultural Service 1989). Only 12,000 metric tons of canola oil were imported into the United States in 1985 compared to an estimated 205,000 metric tons in 1989. During this same period, imports of Canadian canola meal and seed for domestic processing increased dramatically. It is expected that US production of canola will increase to meet domestic demands for both the premium quality oil and the high protein meal (Auld et al. 1989).
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