Liquid, oil-miscible carotenoid preparations

US5863953A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• BASF SE

Inventors

• Erik Luddecke · Mutterstadt, DE
• Angelika-Maria Pfeiffer · Birkenheide, DE
• Joachim Meyer · Frankenthal (Pfalz), DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Nov 18, 1997
• Grant date: Jan 26, 1999
• Expiry date: Nov 18, 2017

Classification

• Technology area (CPC Y): Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
• CPC primary: Y10S977/926
• WIPO field: Pharmaceuticals
• WIPO sector: Chemistry

Abstract

Liquid, oil-miscible carotenoid preparations which, as double dispersion systems, comprise an aqueous-disperse phase which has a particle diameter of less than 100 .mu.m and in which particles, stabilized by protective colloid, of one or more carotenoids are present in disperse form, in an oil as a dispersion medium.