Basf Aktiengesellschaft

Erik Lüddecke

Frank Runge

Angelika-Maria Pfeiffer

Helmut Auweter

Heribert Bohn

Willy Hinz

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).

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Mutterstadt, Germany

Erik Lüddecke