Author name: Dimitri Sclabos

Carotenoids Obtained From Krill Waste – Tharos New R&D

In 2012, one of recent Tharos’ research was presented in Kiev (Ukraine) in the “II International Scientific and Practical Conference for Young Scientists and Students” The conference was sponsored by the Ukrainian Ministry of Education. The research was made in association with the Ukrainian “National University of Life and Environmental Sciences”. The research combines Tharos’ work …

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Krill Patent Battle Rages On (by Natural Products Insider)

LAVAL, Quebec and OSLO, Norway—The tussle between krill oil supplement companies has hit a new gear, with a new report from Aker Biomarine on patent reexamination developments that appear to be going negatively for certain Neptune patent claims and with a new U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) patent infringement case from Neptune Technologies & Bioressources …

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Aquafeed has added our reports to their Technical Center Resource Links Page.

Aquafeed has added our reports to their Technical Center Resource Links Page. Aquafeed is the original web-based information provider for  the aquaculture feed and nutrition community. As well as a content rich web portal, weekly English language and monthly Spanish newsletter  and quarterly PDF-format magazine, Aquafeed also produces international conferences in Europe,  Asia and North America. …

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US Fish Oil & Vitamins Market Update (by TABS Group and GOED)

TABS Group Survey: Vitamin Industry Growth Slows, While Consumers Switch To More Traditional Market Channels. SHELTON, Conn., June 13, 2012 /PRNewswire/ — In its fifth year, TABS Group Annual Vitamin Study reports a small increase of 2 percent in vitamin sales versus 2011, to $12.2 billion. This is despite the percentage of US vitamin users in 2012 decreasing from …

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GOED Reports on Tharos

GOED’s (http://www.goedomega3.com/) June 4th 2012 weekly exclusive report service for its members, has informed about Tharos’ recent change of its engineering manpower capacity as well as Tharos’ updated report on the krill industry. See more here

Update on Krill Lipids Processing (& Other Compounds)

Since end 80s, Tharos has been studying South Antarctic krill capabilities (Euphausia superba, Dana)  to become a high-quality source of lipids and other very special food-grade nutritional compounds. Since then, Tharos has performed valuable at-sea and on-shore research. It has partnered with respectable word-class research institutions studying krill performance under different processing conditions. Several papers and research …

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New krill oil extraction equipment showing great promise (World Fishing)

Land-based tests for a ‘revolutionary’ process for extracting oil from South Antarctic krill have been successfully completed. They show very promising results, says Dimitri Sclabos, general manager of Tharos, the Chile-based consultancy which developed the new technique. At-sea tests will be conducted between the 2012 krill season, which finishes on 30 November, and early in …

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