Basf Aktiengesellschaft

Cornell Research Foundation Inc.

Basf Plant Science Gmbh

Sungene Gmbh & Co. Kgaa

Basf Se Corporation

Angelika-Maria Pfeiffer

Hansgeorg Ernst

Frank Runge

Helmut Auweter

Dale E Bauman

Walter R Butler

Willy Hinz

Erik Lüddecke

Michael De Veth

Euridice Castaneda-Gutierrez

Ralf Flachmann

Joachim Meyer

Heribert Bohn

Christian Köpsel

Erik L&uuml;ddecke

Erik Luddecke

Matt Sauer

Martin Klebsattel

Christel Renate Schopfer

Thomas Luck

Dirk Voeste

This invention provides methods for improving reproductive performance of lactating dairy cows and other mammals. The method in the case of cows comprises feeding to the cows, a composition comprising conjugated linoleic acids (CLAs), cis-9, trans-11 and trans-10, cis-12. When these CLAs are fed daily to dairy cows starting at or prior to calving, and continued after parturition, an improvement in reproductive performance is observed.

Method of enhancing reproductive function of mammals by feeding of conjugated linoleic acids

The present invention relates to the use of astaxanthin-containing plants or parts of plants of the genusor astaxanthin-containing extracts of astaxanthin-containing plants or parts of plants of the genusfor oral administration to animals, methods for producing animal feed preparations, the animal feed preparations themselves, a method for pigmenting animals or animal products, and also a method for producing pigmented animals and animal products.

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A process is described for producing solid preparations of at least one water-soluble, sparingly water-soluble or water-insoluble active compound suitable for the food and animal feed sectors or for pharmaceutical and cosmetic applications. In addition, the invention relates to oily suspensions in which these preparations are present as disperse phase, and to the use of these preparations as additive to animal feeds, foods, pharmaceuticals and cosmetic preparations.

Production of solid preparations of water-soluble, sparingly water-soluble or water-insoluble active compounds

The invention relates to a process for producing dry powders of one or more carotenoids by a) dispersing one or more carotenoids in an aqueous molecular or colloidal solution of a mixture of lactose and a protective colloid and b) converting the dispersion which has formed into a dry powder by removing the water and, where appropriate, additionally used solvents and drying, where appropriate in the presence of a coating material, wherein at least one soybean protein is used as protective colloid in process step a).

Process for producing dry powders of one or more carotenoids

Production of dry powders of one or more oxygenated carotenoids

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.

Liquid, oil-miscible carotenoid preparations

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