Maypro Industries, Purchase, NY, and its ingredient BioPQQ (pyrroloquinoline quinone), which is manufactured by its partner Japan-based Mitsubishi Gas Chemical (MGC), won the “Ingredient with the Best Science” award at Engredea’s 2nd annual Editors’ Choice Awards in Anaheim, CA. 
 
“We are all very excited about this award,” said Dr. Masahiko Nakano, general manager at MGC. “We have now conducted three human studies and several animal studies to establish the efficacy and safety of BioPQQ, so we are very pleased to be recognized by the industry.” 
 
This is a second significant recognition of BioPQQ — in 2010, MGC and Maypro received the NutrAward for BioPQQ as the “Top Evidence-Backed Product of the Year”. 
 
“We are grateful for the recognition of this ground-breaking ingredient and for MGC’s commitment to supporting research on this unique compound,” said Dan Lifton, president of Maypro’s Proprietary and Branded Ingredients division. “We are also very pleased that this award reinforces Maypro’s reputation built over the past 35 years as a constant pioneer, introducing novel clinically backed ingredients into the U.S. market.”