Process for the production of a marine animal oil

US5006281A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• CENTER LABORATORIES, INC. · TW

Inventors

• David Rubin · San Diego, US
• Elyiahu J. Rubin · San Diego, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Jan 28, 1987
• Grant date: Apr 9, 1991
• Expiry date: Jan 28, 2007

Classification

• Technology area (CPC C): Chemistry; Metallurgy
• CPC primary: C11B7/0075
• WIPO field: Basic materials chemistry
• WIPO sector: Chemistry

Abstract

Marine animal oil free of undesirable odor or taste is produced by treating a freshly killed marine animal with a peroxidase-inhibiting antioxidant, disaggregating the marine animal, separating the oil phase, mixing with a dilute aqueous acidic solution, removing the oil phase and adding antioxidant. Marine animal oil which has already turned rancid may be restored to a non-rancid state by mixing with a reducing antioxidant such as a thiodipropionate, separating out the fatty acids which have reacted with the antioxidant, preferably by column chromatography, and adding another antioxidant to prevent further peroxidation.