Fatty Acids Overview Transcript The North American fatty acid
report in the US covers fatty acids that are derived from
tallow. Fatty acids are part of the oleochemical community of
products. Those products are made through various splitting of
water and oils, fat being an oil, so when you create the fatty
acid you get the acid component of the oil splitting. You also
get a glycerine co-product. The fatty acids go into a variety of
products, they are ubiquitous in the market in fact, they go
into food products, they go into industrial products, they go
into agricultural products. In the food industry they are used
to make foods more palatable. In the industrial industry they go
into surfactants, where they are combined with alcohols to
create esters and in the agricultural industry they go into the
same items.