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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 24, 2005
Filed:
Sep. 10, 2001
Applicants:
Joseph Schierle, Bad Krozingen, DE;
Werner Simon, Riehen, CH;
Wolfgang Steinberg, Loerrach, DE;
Inventors:
Assignee:
DSM IP Assets B.V., Heerlen, NL;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61K047/00 ; A23K001/165 ; A23K001/17 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
The present invention is a method for pigmenting a food or foodstuff comprising combining in a source of feed, a carotenoid ester of formula I:wherein R is methyl, C-alkyl, C-alkenyl, or C-cycloalkyl. Further embraced by the invention are the carotenoid-enriched feeds, e.g., for poultry, fish, or crustacea, premixes for incorporation in such feeds, and beadlets containing the carotenoid ester for incorporation in such premixes. A further aspect of the present invention is carotenoid esters of formula I.