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Section: Fragrance > Regulatory & Research

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A Natural and a Pod: Commonalities in Vanilla and Tea Processing

Shared chemistry, biochemistry and processing in tea leaf and vanilla pod.

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Is Cineole Detrimental to TeaTree Oil?

This paper evaluates the claims about cineole in tea tree oil and reviews the results of recent skin irritancy and bioactivity investigations which show that cineole is neither an irritant nor an antagonist.

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Firmenich Teams up with Ventós to Expand in Europe

The companies are renewing their collaboration to form a new distribution agreement for the European region.

Agilent, Markes Team Up to Distribute Markes TD Systems

Agilent Technologies Inc. and Markes International Ltd., have entered into a strategic alliance for global distribution and market development of analytical thermal desorption (TD) instruments.

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Bell Sensory Program Teams Up with Local University

Bell Flavors and Fragrances is partnering up with a local university to expand consumer research into younger millennial generations and Generation Z preferences.

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BASF, Givaudan and IIVS Team Up for Animal Testing Alternative

The improved skin sensitization reactivity method will address the needs of toxicologists and regulators, predicting the potency of a sensitizer without the need for animal testing.

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American Cleaning Institute Adds EPA, FDA Experts to Leadership Team

New additions will assist the organization's sustainability and project management initiatives.

Shreya Agrawal, Ph.D., Adeline Bonneau, Ph.D. and Cristina Venturoni have recently been appointment to the research team at Interstellar Lab.

Interstellar Lab Announces Research Team Appointments, Opening of First BioFactory

Interstellar Lab is opening its first biofactory in October 2024.

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Pink Pepper Fruit and Leaf Oils

This month's column discusses the chemical composition of pink pepper fruit and leaf oils.

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Endpoint. Extraction Matters in F&F Development

Unadulterated oils and optimized extracts.

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Extracting Plants Using Supercritical Glycerin

With Cannabis sativa as an initial target, supercritical glycerin could be used as a solvent to extract natural bioactive compounds.

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Patent Pick: Enzyme-treated Vanilla Extract

Patent Picks are chosen by the editors from publicly available sources. Today's highlight describes an enzymatic method to treat vanilla extract for mature fragrance notes.

Vanilla flavor is dominated by phenols and their transformation products mostly derived from enzymatic hydrolysis of the phenyl-β-D-glucosides. Cocoa bean flavor is dominated by Strecker aldehydes and pyrazines and other products generated during the roasting process of the beans.

Extracting the Essence: Comparing Vanilla and Cocoa Processes

Understanding the similarities and differences in biochemistry, chemistry and curing processes of vanilla and cocoa may offer insight into producing high-quality materials.

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Bio-Based Butanol as a Solvent for Essential Oil Extractions

The authors outline the differences seen in butanol, ethanol, water and hexane extractions for lavender and mint (including volatile and organoleptic analyses).

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Progress in Essential Oils: Sweet Fennel Oil and Extract

In this column, Brian M. Lawrence reviews the composition of sweet fennel oil and extract as found by various researchers. For example, a commercial sample of sweet fennel oil was screened for its anti-platelet activity by Tognolini et al. (2006) and Guerini et al. (2006) using GC-FID and GC/MS. Results are reported herein.

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F&F Literature Review: Natural Progression in Extraction, Production and Research

A brief look at the literature gives some indication of health and wellness drivers, including natural extraction, production and modification processes; authentication techniques; and even biometric efficacy research.

Two researchers dig into the future of natural-product extraction in F&F.

Advancements and Opportunities in Natural-product Extraction: Green Enabling Technologies and Alternative Solvents

Two researchers dig into the future of natural-product extraction in F&F.

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Traditional and Supercritical CO2 Extraction of the Volatiles from Narcissus poeticus L.

Quantitative and qualitative comparison of yield from the two extraction techniques.

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