Highlights

of current EULAFF activities

Debate on “Economic valorisation of agro-biodiverse crops”
6-8 May 2008 - Porto, Portugal

Debate on “traditional knowledge biodiversity and functional foods”
31 March - 1 April 2008 - Mexico City

Lectures on “Traditional medicinal plants and other uses of Amazonian Crops”
December 2007 - Brasil

Symposium “Biodiversity and intellectual property rights: building a new functional food chain”
October 2007 - Viña del Mar, Chile

Roundtable “European IPR position on functional foods”
17-19 September 2007 - Barcelona, Spain

Lectures on “Health promoting functions from Latin American Agro-biodiverse crops”
16 November 2006 - Ghent, Belgium

Partner’s participation to Health Ingredients Europe 2006
14-16 November 2006 - Frankfurt, Germany

Latest News

on Science, Technology and the developing world

ZMC Announces New US Lutein Patent (PR.com)
Raw ingredient manufacturer Zhejiang Medicine Company Limited / Xinchang Pharmaceutical Factory (ZMC) has been issued patent #7,271,298 from the USPTO for the process for isolation and purification of Xanthophyll crystals from plant oleoresin. [PR.com - May 17, 2008] ... more

/C O R R E C T I O N -- China Yingxia International, Inc./ (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance)
News) over Xinhua PR Newswire, in the Consolidated Balance Sheet, the Total Stockholders' Equity should have read 36,779,370 at December 31, 2007 instead of what was previously issued. ... more

Suppliers react to Chinese earthquake (Nutraingredients.com)
China 's worst earthquake in 50 years has had a devastating effect on the country with thousands of people losing their lives and large areas of the south western Sichuan region decimated. ... more