New method could stop shark oil being used in cosmetics and vaccines

Thursday, May 20, 2010 - 09:31 in Biology & Nature

A new method of analysing squalene and squalane, oils often used in the production of cosmetics and vaccines, can show whether they came originally from the liver oil of deepwater sharks or from olive oil...

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