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U.S. PATENTS PATENT DATE ASSIGNEE/INVENTORS PATENT TITLE NO. June 23, Dai Nippon Printing Photosensitive 7550234 2009 Co., Ltd. (Tokyo-to, composition for JP) volume hologram recording and photosensitive medium for volume [...]

SUMMARY * Anti-counterfeit technologies evidences greater potential in pharmaceuticals market due to higher impact on public health. * Food industry favors the implementation of technologies such as RFID, holograms and [...]

8.1 3M 3M, headquartered at St. Paul was established in 1902. They provide safety, protection, and security products. These products facilitate security, safety, and productivity through their anti-counterfeit technologies. Their [...]

Analysis of patents is done on geographical regions and the number of patents issued annually. This analysis is based on an exhaustive search of the U.S., European, and Japanese patent [...]

Authentication packaging technologies includes product such as taggants, holograms, watermarks and inks and dyes. Technologies such as holograms and watermarks provide a unique identification such as colors on the labels [...]

SUMMARY * The increasing importance of secured supply chain and packaging are contributing to the demand for anti-counterfeit packaging. * Integration of multiple anti-counterfeit technologies in packaging is the need [...]

SUMMARY * The U.S. regulatory body FDA has stringent regulations on the quality of drugs and food products. * The flourishing retail market in Europe boosts the region's anti-counterfeit market, [...]

Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) is a technology incorporating electrostatic and electromagnetic rays in the electromagnetic spectrum's radio frequency portion. This enables uniquely identifying an object. It is used in food [...]

INTRODUCTION Encapsulation technology has a long history in the food industry. Over a span of six decades, it has developed from simple coating techniques to prevent fruits and vegetables from [...]

ALPHARMA New Jersey-based Alpharma was founded in 1903 and operates as King Pharmaceuticals Inc. subsidiary. The company globally offers specialty pharmaceutical products for humans and feedadditive products to treat animals. [...]

U. S. PATENTS Date Assignee Title June 9, 2009 Ganeden Biotech, Inc. Topical compositions (Mayfield Heights, OH, Bacillus coagulans US) extracellular products and uses thereof June 2, 2009 Ganeden Biotech, [...]

SUMMARY * Though probiotic functional foods and beverages are the uncontested star probiotic products, probiotic dietary supplements, a market with relatively small size today, is expected to experience significant growth [...]

Probiotics are defined as live microbial food ingredients, which are beneficial to the consumers as they improve the intestinal microbial balance. The live microorganisms are perceived to confer specific health [...]

ADVANCED BIONUTRITION CORPORATION (ABN) Established in 2001, the Advanced BioNutrition Corporation (ABN) is headquartered at Columbia, Maryland. The company provides environmentally sustainable, science-based solutions for health, nutrition, and industrial applications. [...]

SUMMARY * According to definition provided by FAO/WHO 'probiotics' are live microorganisms which when administered in adequate amounts confer a health benefit on the host and they must be alive [...]

SUMMARY * Probiotics application market is driven by the demand for natural rather than artificial matter for general well being and prevention of diseases. * Women consumers need higher levels [...]

SUMMARY * The research areas to receive thrust in the evolving area of probiotics are increasing stability of the functional traits of probiotic ingredients. * Particular technological innovations in the [...]

SUMMARY * U.S., a relatively smaller market in 2008, offers significant market potential due to rising concern among Americans regarding their health and improvement in the level of awareness about [...]

PATENTS FOR U.S. Date Assignee/inventors Patent title Patent no. June 30, 2009 Showa University Method for 7553612 (Tokyo, JP) cryopreserving microencapsu- lated living animal cells enclosed in immunoisolation membranes, such [...]

SUMMARY * The material that holds the food ingredients inside it is called the packaging material or media. * Packaging media is further segmented into molecular packaging, biopolymers and other [...]

SUMMARY * North America presently holds the maximum market share of the global food encapsulation market due to the technological advancements of food industries. Moreover, large numbers of product segments [...]

SUMMARY * An increasing number of food encapsulation market players are forming technology sharing partnerships to gain an edge over competitors. * Industry participants are also forming international agreements and [...]

SUMMARY * Widely encapsulated food ingredients include vitamins, minerals, enzymes, organic acids, probiotics, sweeteners, preservatives, essential oils, flavor & essence, probiotics. * Vitamins and minerals currently hold major market revenues [...]

SUMMARY * Food encapsulation is a routine procedure which has applications in several end-user industries such as bakery, meat, confectionary, functional, fortified, and convenience foods. * Convenience and functional foods [...]

SUMMARY * Food encapsulation technologies include microencapsulation for micrometer sized ingredients, macroencapsulation for whole ingredients, and nano-encapsulation for ingredients of nanoscale range. * Microencapsulation is a low-risk, cost-effective technique that [...]

SUMMARY * Food encapsulation forms an integral part of food processing. It involves several procedures depending on the size of food ingredients encapsulated. * In addition to preservation, food encapsulation [...]

MARKET OVERVIEW * Food encapsulation have evolved from being a very fundamental technology of preservation to a complex food processing technology involving taste and color masking & controlled release properties. [...]

Following are profiles of leading companies in the baby food market industry. The objective of this chapter is to provide detailed picture of key players in this market. The companies [...]

U.S. BOTTLED BABY FOOD PATENTS Publication Date Assignee/Inventor Patent title Patent No. March 10, 2009 Whirlpool Microwave oven and 7501608 Corporation method of (Benton Harbor, operating a MI, US) microwave [...]

The baby food product market has been categorized into the markets for bottled baby food, baby cereals, baby snacks, baby soups, and frozen baby foods. Bottled baby food enjoys the [...]

Babies cannot digest all kinds of food in the early stages of life. While the ingredients used in baby food are not very different from those used in food meant [...]

The U.S. has the highest number--58%--of the total number of registered patents in the baby food products market. Europe ranks second with 30% of the total number of patents registered [...]

While babies were previously given only homemade food, things have changed dramatically in developed countries and a similar trend can be seen in the developing countries as well. The baby [...]

Babies grow at a very fast pace in the early stage of life; and their proper growth and development depends on their nutritional intake. Homemade baby food may not have [...]

GLOBAL ANTI-COUNTERFEIT PACKAGING TECHNOLOGIES MARKET FOR FOOD AND PHARMACEUTICALS * The increasing importance of secured supply chain and packaging are contributing to the demand for anti-counterfeit packaging. * Integration of [...]

1.1 KEY TAKE-AWAYS * To define and measure the global and individual micro markets for anti-counterfeit food and pharmaceuticals packaging technologies by products, applications, and technologies. * To focus on [...]

SUMMARY * Food encapsulation enables taste masking as well as taste enhancement by enclosing the targeted flavor into a capsule. Nanotechnology-based flavor encapsulation systems mask or retain sensitive flavors over [...]

SUMMARY * Europe leads with the highest number of patents registered between 2004 and 2009. * There has been no significant change in the number of patents registered between 2005 [...]

KEY TAKEAWAYS * To define the global probiotics market. * To measure the global probiotics market size and its various sub-segments, this will include products, application, ingredients and technologies. * [...]

The overall market for probiotics is categorized into the submarkets for functional foods and beverages, dietary supplements, specialty nutrients, animal feed probiotic and other probiotic products. The global probiotics market [...]

The U.S. was the largest baby food market in 2007 and 2008, but Asia is the most promising baby food market in the future because its high birth rates and [...]