Appeal No. 95-1110
Application 07/983,173
characteristics of the feed, does not inhibit the formation of
the golden brown color (col. 1, lines 38-44; col. 2, lines 3-7).
Chandler discloses controlling dust from animal feed by
applying to the feed “a mixture of one or more food grade
straight chain aliphatic fatty acids or their salts, glyceryl
lactopalmitate in a surface-active effective amount and an
unctuous, safely ingestible liquid vehicle” (col. 1, lines
66-70). Chandler teaches that commercial fatty acids are used,
which are “produced by the hydrolysis of such naturally occurring
oils as tallow, soybean oil, coconut oil, and cottonseed oil”
(col. 2, lines 37-39). Thus, the material applied to the feed
does not include tallow but, rather, includes a fatty acid
derived from tallow.
The examiner argues that the applied references indicate
that it was well known in the art to use tallow in food coating
materials to effect preservation (answer, page 3). This argument
is not well taken because none of the applied references which
disclose tallow teach that the tallow is applied to the food for
this purpose.
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