Friday, September 10, 2010
Food Service
| Branch/Service | Food Service |
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| Title: | Profiling of plants/extracts |
| Client description: | Food ingredient manufacturer or food manufacturer/marketeer |
| Client’s challenge: | - No in-house NP capabilities
- No taxonomic or chemotaxonomic know how
- Maybe even no own R&D
- Limited knowledge of biological activities
- Limited analytical capabilities
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| Client’s demand: | - Seeks novelties, new biological activity and new IP-opportunities
- Looks for innovation potential
- Needs competitive advantage or extended marketing opportunities
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| IMD’s strength: | - Taxonomic and chemotaxonomic know how
- Capability to correlate the triangle taxonomy-biological activity-structure
- Extensive databases and proprietary data on biological activities
- DEREPLICATION and STRUCTURE ELUCIDATION capability
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| IMD’s assignment: | Thorough analysis of established food plant/extracts towards new fields of application and/or complete constituents’ analysis |
| IMD’s approach: | - Production of extracts and enriched extracphases from plant material
- Analytical characterization of extracts and extractphases by HPLC/MS/UV/ELSD
- Derepliction of detected compounds
- I depth analysis of databases and literature regarding the biological activity of dereplicated compounds including first evaluation of IP possibilities
- After consultation with client: Isolation of selected compounds, STRUCTURE ELUCIDATION and description with a puritiy >95%
- Biological test as and when required
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| Results: | Novel food additive projects with IP path forward strategy |
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