This book is intended to set out for shippers, surveyors, insureers, P & I clubs, cargo receivers, shipowners and others whose business impinges on the edible oil trade the background to problems associated with the transport of these products. For this reason it glosses over many major aspects of what is a very big subject and concentrates on the vegetable oils to the partial exclusion of animal fats. It gathers together in one place current standards, guidelines and regulations relating to the subject and emphasize those matters which relate to the proper handling of what is essentially a group of food products vulnerable in anything but the most careful handling and storage conditions.