Abstract: Provided is a pharmaceutical composition comprising clevidipine in a sterile, ready to use, physically stable, aqueous dispersion of nanoparticles that stabilizes clevidipine against formation of impurities and is suitable for parenteral administration.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for extracting botanical oil from botanical mass includes milling the biomass and chilling the milled biomass. The biomass is then exposed to a chilled ethanol solvent. Water is added and the solution introduced into a first centrifuge. The clean ethanol slurry is then introduced into an evaporator leaving a two-phase mixture which is introduced into a second centrifuge which separates the water from the pure botanical oil.

Abstract: Juice extraction using multiple pairs of juice extractors and comminutors which reduce the food pieces into successively smaller pieces with juice extraction occurring after each comminuting step. Coarse food pieces are pressed with extracted juice directed to a juice holding tank. The pressed coarse chop food pieces fall into the hopper of a second comminutor which performs a medium chop on the now pressed but still coarse chopped food pieces. The medium chopped food pieces are then fed from the second comminutor into the juice extraction chamber of a second juice extractor whereupon the medium chopped food pieces are pressed with extracted juice directed to a juice holding tank. Any number of comminutor and juice extraction pairs may be used in serial fashion to optimize the percentage of juice extracted in a minimum amount of time.

Abstract: Systems and methods for producing protein powder are disclosed. In various embodiments, protein powder is prepared by a process comprising sanitizing raw material from aquatic animals mixture with ozone, combining the raw material with a solvent to create a mixture, baking the combined mixture for a first time period, separating, with a filter, liquid from the combined mixture that was baked for the first time period, baking the combined mixture without the separated liquid for a second time period, separating, with a filter, liquid from the combined mixture that was baked for the second time period, curing the combined mixture, and processing the cured mixture to produce protein powder.

Abstract: A method for the solvent-free fractionation of jatropha seeds having a phorbol ester content and at least one fraction.

Abstract: A method for separating neutral and polar lipids from an oil of biological material, wherein the oil is fractionated using a mixture of a polar solvent comprising at least one carbon atom, water and an additional substance selected from the group consisting of: mono-, di- and oligosaccharides comprising from 3 to 10 monosaccharide units, said additional substance is present in an amount of at least 0.1 wt % calculated on the total weight of solvent, water and additional substance, to form at least two liquid fractions having different densities, wherein one fraction is rich in polar lipids and another fraction is rich in neutral lipids. An oil rich in polar lipids obtained from the method is disclosed, said oil I contains at least 40, preferably at least 50 lipid % polar lipids as calculated on the total amount of lipids in said oil and that the total amount of polar solvent and water in said oil is between 20 and 30 wt %. An oat oil containing high amounts of estolides of DGDG can further be obtained.

Abstract: A process for extracting fats and oils from plant and animal matter using a normally gaseous solvent in its liquid state. Use is made of gravity flow and pressure differential from one vessel to another to transfer solvent from an upper vessel to a lower vessel. The vessels comprise an outer jacket to allow cooling and heating fluid to flow there-through to achieve better control of the pressure within each vessel.

Abstract: A method for the solvent-free fractionation of jatropha seeds having a phorbol ester content and at least one fraction.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for producing fatty acid alkyl esters as well as cellulosic simplified sugars, shortened protein polymers, amino acids, or combination thereof resulting from the simultaneous esterification and hydrolysis, alcoholysis, or both of algae and other oil containing materials containing phospholipids, free fatty acids (FFA), glycerides, or combination thereof as well as polysaccharides, cellulose, hemicellulose, lignocellulose, protein polymers, or combination thereof in the presence of an alcohol and an optional acid catalyst.

Abstract: The invention relates to a stable water soluble composition containing lithophosphatidylethanol amine (LPE) or lecithin including the LPE 3% or more. The composition comprises one or both of lysophosphatidylethanol amine and lecithin 0.1 to 50 wt %, fatty acid or salt thereof 0.1 to 60 wt % and solvent 10 to 99.8 wt %. According to the invention, it is possible to provide the stable water soluble composition of lithophosphatidylethanolamine and lecithin which does not cause the precipitation at the room temperature below 20° C. and can maintain the clear formulation even during the long term keeping.

Abstract: Isolated nucleic acid fragments and recombinant constructs comprising such fragments encoding a delta-8 desaturase along with a method of making long-chain polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFAs) using this delta-8 desaturase in plants and oleaginous yeast are disclosed.

Abstract: Corn oil and corn meal obtained from corn are included in useful products. The corn oil is extracted from the corn to form the corn meal. The corn grain process generally includes the steps of cracking corn grain having a total oil content of from about 3% by weight to about 30% by weight and extracting a corn oil from the cracked corn grain. The corn oil is useful for making nutritionally enhanced edible oil or cooking oil, lubricants, biodiesel, fuel, cosmetics and oil-based or oil-containing chemical products. The extracted corn meal is useful for making enhanced animal feed rations, snack food, blended food products, cosmetics, and fermentation broth additive.

Abstract: Methods of removing a lower alkyl alcohol from a polyester mixture of polyol fatty acid polyester and lower alkyl alcohol comprise (a) contacting the polyester mixture with a stripping mixture comprising an inert stripping gas, up to about 10,000 ppm lower alkyl alcohol and up to about 2000 ppm oxygen, wherein at least a portion of the lower alkyl alcohol is transferred from the polyester mixture to the stripping mixture, thereby increasing the concentration of lower alkyl alcohol in the stripping mixture, and (b) separating the stripping mixture from the polyester mixture.

Abstract: A fatty acid ester prepared by treating botanical seeds or fruits with a monohydric alcohol having 1 to 10 carbon atoms under pressure at a temperature of at least 180° C., preferably under supercritical conditions.

Abstract: A method of preparing purified ester compositions is provided. The process can be utilized to isolate and purify monoglycerides and propylene glycol monoesters, to advantage. It can also be used to isolate preferred diester products. The invention also concerns equipment for conduct of the processes, provision of preferred food additives, and provision of preferred food industry compositions. The process generally involves use of liquid-liquid extractions, to advantage.

Abstract: Provided is a process for removing non-choline phosphatides from a lecithin material to facilitate obtaining a highly purified phosphatidylcholine product which is essentially free of non-choline phosphatides. The product can be obtained efficiently and effectively, even when starting with a raw soybean gum (lecithin).

Abstract: A process for refining vegetable oil from a miscella obtained by extraction of vegetable seeds with an organic solvent, which comprises permeating the miscella through an ultrafilter made of an inorganic microporous membrane having a pore size of from 30 to 100 .ANG. in a state heated at a temperature of from 50.degree. to 120.degree. C. to remove impurities contained in the miscella.