11.   What the scientists did not understand was why vegetable fats seemed to lower cholesterol levels.

12.   But Washington seems content with its ban on vegetable fats.

13.   European chocolate purists will have to swallow a little milk and vegetable fat along with their cocoa butter after a ruling Thursday by the European Parliament.

14.   Frozen deserts usually substitute milk fat with vegetable fat, it said.

15.   The compromise listed six non-cocoa vegetable fats that could be used in chocolate making.

16.   As a condition of allowing inclusion of vegetable fats, the commission is expected to call for clearer labelling of ingredients on chocolate bars.

17.   Draft new legislation permitting the use of vegetable fats in chocolate confectionary throughout the European Union will be approved by the European Commission on Wednesday, officials said Tuesday.

18.   The type of vegetable fat would have to be clearly marked on packaging.

19.   Netherlands Cocoa Association Chairman Wim van Bergen Friday urged Ivory Coast producers to resist a proposed EU ruling allowing wider use of non-cocoa vegetable fats in chocolate.

20.   The European Commission put forward proposals last week to authorise the use of up to five percent of vegetable fats, other than cocoa butter, in making chocolate.