Salad dressings discontinued

McNeil Consumer Healthcare and Unilever/Lipton have discontinued shipments of their respective cholesterol-lowering salad dressings, Benecol and Take Control, after less than a year on the market. Although the firms say they want to focus on the brands' spreads, lower-than-expected sales of the premium priced dressings undoubtedly contributed to the decision to discontinue the products. McNeil recently launched Benecol softgel supplements and redefined the focus of its marketing campaign to concentrate on physicians (1"The Tan Sheet" Dec. 6, 1999, p. 4)