Patents Assigned to Goodman Fiedler Ingredients Limited
  • Selection and/or enhancement of resident microorganisms in the gastrointestinal tract
    Patent number: 6528498
    Abstract: Improved method of enhancing a population of one or more target micoorganisms in the gastrointestinal tract of an animal, the improvement comprising providing to the animal a selected modified or unmodified resistant starch or mixtures thereof, such that the one or more microorganisms will selectively utilize the starch and/or increase in number and/or activity in the gastrointestinal tract, either uniformly throughout the gastrointestinal tract or at specific site or regions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2001
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2003
    Assignees: The University of New South Wales, Burns Philp & Company Limited, Burns Philp Research & Development PTY Ltd., Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, Arnott's Biscuits Limited, Gist-Brocades Australia PTY Limited, Goodman Fiedler Ingredients Limited
    Inventors: Ian L. Brown, Patricia Lynne Conway, Karl Anders Olof Henriksson, Kenneth J. McNaught, Xin Wang