DSM teams up with Oceans Omega for emulsions

Ingredients giant DSM Nutritional Products has enhanced it omega-3 portfolio with a supply agreement with Oceans Omega LLC and its OTEC emulsion ingredients.

Oceans Omega LLC supplies advanced omega-3 EPA/DHA ingredients for the fortification of food and beverage products. The company, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Mycell Technologies LLC, offers a unique stabilization technology to deliver omega-3 EPA/DHA ingredient solutions, and enable novel, shelf-stable, tasty consumer products such as clear beverages, gelatins, gels, liquid nutritional shots, and add-to-water concentrates.

"We are extremely pleased to be part of Oceans Omega's growing success,” said Joseph LaPlaca, V.P. Marketing and Business Development from DSM Nutritional Products. “Their innovative stabilization technology along with our high quality omega-3 oils and world class production facilities can help provide the needed omega-3 fortification to numerous product applications that have been challenging in the past."

Dr Volker Berl, Chief Technology Officer of Oceans Omega added: "We are delighted to have DSM Nutritional Products produce our OTEC emulsion ingredients.

“This enables us to further scale our volumes, while strengthening our supply chain and leveraging DSM's world-class life'sDHA and Meg-3 oils in our emulsion products."