11.01.02
Roche Vitamins, Parsippany, NJ, has signed a cooperation agreement with AnalytiCon Discovery, Potsdam, Germany, a biotech company researching active substances based on natural compounds. Roche Vitamins has decided to systematically screen edible plants and other foodstuffs for human consumption, such as spices and mushrooms, for their potential as sources of nutraceuticals. Roche Vitamins has engaged AnalytiCon Discovery to develop a program for the selection, acquisition and fractionation of materials, and to offer support in the purification and structure elucidation of the compounds found.