Not quite. Olestra was always meant and designed to be a food product, but the scientists responsible for developing it didn't anticipate Olestra's side-effect- anal leakage. It was only recently that scientists tried to salvage some of the work that went into the chemical and found that it had uses in industry.
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Date: 2009-04-26 04:25 pm (UTC)