Abstract
The tall oil is a by-product resulted from the fabrication of softwood pulp by using the sulphate boiling technique. The most important components of the tall oil are the phytosterols, used in cosmetics, medicine. Lately, the phytosterols are introduced in functional foods due to their properties of decreasing the cholesterol in low density lipoproteins (LDL).
 In this paper the physical-chemical characteristics of the tall oil provided by the Someş, Dej Pulp Plant were studied. As a result of the studied carried out using analytical methods, it was determined that the content in phytosterols of the tall oil is of 2.68%.
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