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Guittard, whose family has been making chocolate since 1868, said some big chocolate manufacturers favor the proposed change in regulations because they want to keep prices down on key ingredients by using less expensive vegetable fat, which can contain trans fats, instead of cocoa butter.

That scares him.

Cybele May, a playwright, whale-watching enthusiast and Web editor in California, has been encouraging people to write the FDA with posts on her blog at candyblog.net.

"Suddenly, we are worried that the chocolate bar isn't the same anymore and we don't know why,'' May said.

If the change is approved, products would still need to contain chocolate liquor, the ground-up center of the cocoa bean.

But a confection such as PayDay Chocolatey Avalanche - which doesn't contain cocoa butter - would be able to call itself PayDay Chocolate Avalanche.

It seems like a small distinction, but to people like Guittard and May, it is not.

An FDA spokeswoman said if - stressing, if - the agency decides to consider changing the standards as requested in the petition, the process would take several years.

For their part, chocolate makers aren't saying much.

Kirk Saville, a Hershey's spokesman, said it was "premature to speculate on any changes before the process is complete.'' He was more ...

Collection and potassium readings Specimen collection techniques can bump up potassium readings by 1-2 mEq/L.

And the errors can seem like little things, such as leaving the tourniquet on too long, filling the blood collection tubes in the wrong order, or allowing the patient to pump his or her fist during the venipuncture.

Potassium levels also creep up in specimens that sit around too long before centrifugation.

A patient were really hypokalemic, the extra potassium added from these errors-for example, due to cross-contamination from a blood tube with a preservative, EDTA-can drive up the potassium into the normal range.

And that can be tragic for the patient whose potassium is really too low for surgery, even though the lab result shows a normal level.

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