On the danger of pesticides in cottonseed oil, I would like to quote from "The Goldbecks' Guide to Good Food" by Nikki and David Goldbeck (1987), pp. 293-4: "The knowledge that most agricultural products are routinely sprayed with chemicals in the field causes some concern about the pesticide residues in any of the oils extracted from them. Monitoring has revealed pesticides in samples of both crude and processed oils. For a while, cottonseed oil was especially criticized since cotton is not traditionally raised as a food crop. We have been informed, however, that cotton raised for oil is grown mostly in Iowa, Nebraska, and the Dakotas, not in the South. The shorter growing season there prevents maturation of the fiber-producing cotton boll which is the prime target of persistant pests. Thus, dependence on insecticides in growing cotton in those areas is no greater than for other oil-bearing crops." Perhaps others will have more recent information on this, or on oils produced for consumption outside the U.S. Anne Altshuler, RN, MS, IBCLC and LLL Leader in Madison, WI