Many consumers have been paying for oil blends with the price of pure oil. But that is about to stop soon. The Department of Health is implementing a new policy, and manufacturers can only label "pure oil" on the container, if the oil is completely unmixed. This measure will be effective starting March of 2011.

Cooking and edible oil products abound on the market. While many are marketed as pure oils, a look at ingredient labels reveal that a high percentage are actually oil blends containing canola and other cheaper oils.

The Department of Health recently passed a new policy aimed at preventing manufacturers from selling oil blends as pure oil. Beginning next March, only 100% pure oils can be marketed as pure oils.

If a manufacturer wants to list only one type of oil on the label, that type of oil must make up at least 50% of the product.

A maximum of two types of oil can be listed on the labels of oil blends, and they can only be listed if they make up at least 30% of the product, with the higher concentration oil listed first.

According to the DOH, only Taiwan's special peanut blend oil will be exempt from the measure because peanut oil retains its unique flavor even when it is mixed with other oils.

At the same time, labels still must specify that the product is an oil blend. Violators will be subject to fines once the measure goes into effect next March.

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