Canola (1979); Canola Oil (1983)

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   Something more for Canada!
   OED doesn't have "canola" or "canola oil."  Amazing.  Slang even a decade later such as "going postal" got in!  Add "canola" with "rabe" right now!
   Merriam-Webster has 1979 for "canola" and 1986 for "canola oil."  MW has "canola"="Canada oil-low acid."
   These cites are from ProQuest Historical Newspapers.


   3 April 1979, NEW YORK TIMES, pg. A18:
_Purification_
   It was only a matter of time before somebody decided something had to be done about rapeseed.  No matter that the "rape" of this oil seed comes from the Latin "rapum," or turnip, and not from the Latin "rapere," meaning to seize.  Rapeseed processors in Canada want to call their product "canola," a name that sounds as if it were inspired by granola, holism's favorite breakfast food.  But purging rapeseed is only the beginning of the work that needs to be done to cleanse the botanical vocabulary.  How can the pure-in-tongue rest easy while the fields are full of horehound, lady-in-the-night and squawroot--also known as Stinking Benjamin?

   2 December 1983, WALL STREET JOURNAL, pg. 15:
_Algeria Orders From Canada_
$22 Million of Vegetable Oil_
   OTTAWA--Algeria ordered 30,000 metric tons of Canadian rapeseed oil valued at $22 million, Canadian Commercial Corp., a government enterprise, said.
   Rapeseed oil, also known as canola oil, is a vegetable oil used in cooking and food processing.  It is Canada's main oil-seed product. (...)

   21 February 1984, WALL STREET JOURNAL, pg. 49:
_FDA Is Seen Clearing_
_Rapeseed Oil for Use_
_In U.S. Food Products_
   OTTAWA--The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is expected to authorize soon the use of rapeseed oil as a food product in the U.S., FDA officials said.
   Rapeseed oil is used in many countries as an ingredient in such foods as margarine, mayonnaise, salad dressing and shortening.  It competes with other oilseeds, including soybean and sunflowers.
   The U.S. has barred rapeseed oil from its edible-oil market because it contains erucic acid, a fatty acid that was cited in the early 1970s as a possible source of heart problems.  The proposed FDA regulation would allow only rapeseed oil with low erucic acid content to be used in foods in the U.S.
   The Canadian government has taken the initiative in seeking FDA clearance for low erucic acid rapeseed oil, asking in 1982 that low erucic acid rapeseed oil be put on the FDA's list of products "generally regarded as safe."
   Rapeseed, which grows well in northern climates, is Canada's major oilseed crop.  It accounts for about 54% of Canada's domestic market for edible oils.
   The Canola Council of Canada, a rapeseed-industry trade group, said FDA authorization would open the U.S. market to Canadian exports of rapeseed oil and to products containing rapeseed oil.  Canada has given the name Canola to tis low erucic acid varieties of rapeseed oil. (...)


   See the following:

http://www.canola-council.org/