Nestec S.a.

Rudolf Wild Gmbh & Co. Kg

Ralf Zink

Roberto Reniero

Florence Rochat

Eduardo Schiffrin

Jalil Benyacoub

Pablo Perez

Christoph Cavadini

Virginie Rousseau

Thierry Der Weid

Markus Baur

Thierry Von Der Weid

Ruth Knorr

Karine Buffard

Virginia Rousseau

Isabelle Auzanneau

Marina Elli

Matthias Sass

Gudrun Schmidt

Lorenzo Morelli

Barbara Marchesini-Huber

Bacterial agents for preparing compositions which are for cosmetic, pharmaceutical or veterinary use and which are intended to stabilize and/or regulate the cutaneous ecosystem of mammals. These bacterial agents being an extract of a bacterium, or a bacterium, selected for their adhesion to skin cells and anti-adhesive to pathogens of the cutaneous system. The invention also relates to compositions containing such agents.

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Disclosed are food compositions, comprising aqueous extracts of(Lemon balm) and/or its active principle rosmarinic acid. Methods of preparing a food composition, and of making a medicament, both methods comprising rosmarinic acid and/or aqueous extracts of, are also disclosed.

Food compositions comprising lemon balm extracts

The present invention provides novel strains of probiotics for use in the gastrointestinal tract of a pet. The probiotics of the present invention are capable of fermenting starch to produce lactic acid and/or hydrogen peroxide anti-pathogenic metabolites. The present invention also provides a novel method for identifying the effectiveness of a pet probiotic in vitro. The method simulates the introduction of a probiotic candidate in the gastrointestinal tract of a pet and measures the anti-pathogenic effectiveness of the probiotic.

Probiotic strains for pets

Bacterial agents for preparing compositions which are for cosmetic, pharmaceutical or veterinary use and which are intended to stabilize and/or regulate the cutaneous ecosystem of mammals. These bacterial agents are extracts of a bacterium, or a bacterium and are selected for their adhesion to skin cells and anti-adhesion to pathogens of the cutaneous system. The invention also relates to compositions containing such agents.

Agent for the anti-adhesion of skin pathogenic flora

The present invention relates to novel lactic acid bacterial micro-organisms that have been isolated and selected for their probiotic potential and their use for the preparation of petfood compositions intended to improve the health of pets, and to compositions containing the same.

Probiotics for pet food applications

A bacterial cell having protection against conditions which are lethal to an unprotected bacterial cell wherein, the protected cell is obtained by subjecting a bacterial cell to treatment with a sublethal level of stress.

A growth medium adapted for the growth of a variety of different lactobacilli is provided. The medium is based on milk which is supplemented by at least four free amino acids, at least two ribonucleosides or other ribonulcleotide precursors, and iron. A variety of different Lactobacilli, particularly Lactobacilli belonging to Johnson's group A and B groups, are able to reproduce at rates approximately the same as milk supplemented with yeast extract. This medium when used in the production of dairy products that contain Lactobacilli does not contain the off-flavor of a fermented medium that had been supplemented with yeast extract.

Growth medium for lactobacilli containing amino acids, nucleosides and iron

The present invention relates to a novel defined medium suitable to cultivate lactic acid bacteria, such as Lactobaccilus or Bifidobacteria. In particular the present invention pertains to the use of said medium for the isolation of bioactive molecules or functional metabolites.

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Le Mont Pelerin, Switzerland

Ralf Zink