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Avivagen Announces Publication of Peer-Reviewed Article in Food and Chemical Toxicology Journal
Avivagen Announces Publication of Peer-Reviewed Article in Food and Chemical Toxicology Journal.
About this update from Avivagen, Inc.
[{"type":"text","content":"\nAvivagen Inc. (TSXV:VIV, OTCQB:VIVXF) (“Avivagen”), a life sciences corporation focused on developing and commercializing products for livestock, companion animal and human applications that safely enhances feed intake and supports immune function, thereby supporting general health and performance, is pleased to announce that its scientific paper entitled “Safety and uptake of fully Oxidized Beta Carotene” (the active ingredient in the company’s OxC-beta™ product line) has been published in the Journal of Food and Chemical Toxicology. A link to the article is provided below.\n\n“With any innovative product, adoption and uptake require a robust understanding of the benefits and safety of that product and necessitate significant scrutiny. Avivagen has been working tirelessly to showcase the multiple, compelling use cases of OxC-beta and concurrent proven safety. This new peer reviewed publication, one of now ten such publications on OxC-beta, represents the cumulative work on the attractive safety profile of our product. This pioneering work by Dr. Graham Burton, co-founder of Avivagen, and his team lays important groundwork to seek further regulatory approvals for OxC-beta in the U.S. and around the world, for multiple use cases and with strong, proven scientific underpinnings expected by our end market customers,” said Kym Anthony, Avivagen CEO. “We look forward to sharing these results with existing and new customers and providing this to regulatory bodies around the world as we look to further expand our access to large markets.”\n\nPlease refer to the full content of the peer-reviewed publication on the “Safety and uptake of fully oxidized Beta Carotene” by following the link below: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0278691522005853?via%3Dihub\n\nAbout OxC-beta™ Technology\nβ-carotene has been primarily recognized for the health benefits it provides when it is transformed into vitamin A by biochemical reaction with oxygen in the body. Avivagen discovered that spontaneous oxidation of β-carotene produces a mixture of oxidation compounds other than vitamin A that also provide important health benefits. The mixture of β-carotene oxidation compounds, OxC-beta, a product developed by Avivagen, contains neither β-car...