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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 30, 2004
Filed:
Apr. 19, 2002
Applicant:
Inventors:
Norman Milstein, Montgomery, OH (US);
Manfred Biermann, Cincinnati, OH (US);
Peter Leidl, Illertissen, DE;
Rainer von Kries, Illertissen, DE;
Assignee:
Cognis Corporation, Ambler, PA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61K 3/156 ; B06B 1/00 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A61K 3/156 ; B06B 1/00 ;
Abstract
A food additive useful for lowering serum cholesterol in humans contains a sterol or stanol ester of a fatty acid or a dicarboxylic acid ester of a sterol or stanol made by reacting a sterol, stanol and a carboxylic acid in the presence of an effective amount of a catalyst selected from the group consisting of calcium oxide, calcium hydroxide, a calcium salt of a carboxylic acid, magnesium hydroxide and combinations thereof described herein below.