Although the SCO produced by microorganisms was superior to evening
primrose oil in all respects, higher content GLA (Table 3), higher stability to
oxidation, absence of high levels of competing
FA such as linoleic acid, lower content of herbicide and pesticide residues, the
fugal oil could not be sold to a public can be claimed that it was evening
primrose oil.
– Nevertheless, this first SCO failed to bring a reasonable profit for the producers,
it was a significant milestone in the development of SCO.