Levulinic acid was converted to unidentified products believed to include angelica lactones, at a rate more than 500 times smaller than the rate of HMF conversion.
In particular, Sagent will not accept orders from correctional facilities and prison systems for products believed to be part of certain states' lethal injection protocols.
"Historically, consumers didn't really care about where their spirits came from, but the good food craze has prompted people to question the origins of these products," believes Chase.
As they see it, the company will achieve major growth through its nutraceuticals division, which sells natural vitamin E, isoflavones and other soy-based products believed to have health benefits.
But the suit does suggest that McKesson, a distributor of health care products, believed it badly needed to expand into a more rapidly growing field, and thought HBO could provide that.
Dohse, who is the managing director of the Malawi-based company TreeCrops – which buys and processes baobab and other wild-plant products – believes the world's appetite for the tangy fruit is sharpening.
The public embraced the new products, believing them to be healthier.
This encourages firms to introduce more and more products, believing erroneously that they are profitable.
Computational modeling can be used to evaluate how different gene products believed to be critical for a particular process interact.
