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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 23, 1994
Filed:
Mar. 27, 1992
Mamoru Tomita, Yokohama, JP;
Yoshitaka Tamura, Yokohama, JP;
Hiroshi Miyakawa, Kamakura, JP;
Hitoshi Saito, Kawasaki, JP;
Hiroaki Abe, Yokosuka, JP;
Eiji Nagao, Sagamihara, JP;
Morinaga Milk Industry Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A method for treatment of a matter which contains moisturized or liquified lactoferrin which has been isolated from mammalian milk, processed mammalian milk and by-products in mammalian milk-processing, without losing the physiological activities of lactoferrin, which comprises adjusting pH of said moisturized or liquefied lactoferrin contained in said matter within an acidic range between 2.0 and 6.0 both inclusive by adding acid or aqueous solution of acid when the pH of said moisturized or liquefied lactoferrin is out of said pH range, and heating said matter in the range from 60.degree. C. to 130.degree. C. for a span of time which may assure 60% or more of undenaturization rate of lactoferrin.