Abstract: A fatty material and a starch product are brought together and sterilized, then a quantity of sterilized water is added and, by violent agitation, an emulsion is formed which is stored in a pressure dispensing bottle. Measured doses of this emulsion are used as thickeners in daily kitchen use.

Abstract: This sterilizing apparatus comports an enclosure (1) in which two electrodes (4,5) of an electrochemical cell are supplied by a transformer-rectifier (16) for producing an aqueous NaOCl solution from a NaCl solution. During its production, the solution is distributed over the surfaces to be sterilized of the objects to be sterilized (9) by a circulation pump (7) and a distribution manifold (6) feeding canes (10) and sprinkling heads (11) by vertical distribution pipes (8).

Abstract: There is described a process for the production of a polysaccharide-producing enzyme, which comprises fermenting an appropriate enzyme producing organism in aqueous sucrose, characterized in that the sucrose concentration is maintained at between 1 and 10 g/l throughout all but the last part of the fermentation and that the dissolved oxygen content of the fermentation is controlled.There is also described a method for the purification of a polysaccharide producing enzyme, which comprises absorbing a mixture containing the enzyme on an anionic resin and removing the enzyme from the resin with a sugar containing eluant, and a novel highly purified form of polysaccharide producing enzyme.