Tricks of European Buyers
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Free Fatty Acid
From a Special Correspondent.
London, Feb. 3.
YOUR cartoon in the December P.1.M., concerning “free fatty acid” in copra, is timely.
Do you know that buyers in Europe, as a regular practice, use free fatty acid as an unfair means to get copra for a lower price? The United Stated buyers seldom, if ever, make any claim on this account; but, here in London, the buyers claim ar bitration as soon as the steamer is re ported in the Channel, and they go to all lengths to try and get some reduction in price.
Free fatty acid, according to expert modern chemists, is not the trouble that some manufacturers say it is; and, with present-day methods, neutralisation is a fairly simple matter.