05.04.12
Aker BioMarine, Oslo, Norway, has been accordedan unopposed grant of Australian Patent No. 2008231570 containing claims covering, among other things, a krill oil composition containing (i) astaxanthin in the range from about 400 to about 2,500 mg/kg and (ii) ether phospholipids in the range of from about 3 to 10%.The patent also contains claims covering extraction of krill oil from "a denatured krill product," e.g. a krill meal or a powder. These claims are not limited to any specific extraction method and thus encompass both solvent and supercritical fluid extraction.