Albion Receives New U.S. Patent

ST. CLAIR SHORES, Mich.—Albion Advanced Nutrition was granted a new U.S. patent (No. 7,144,737), “Process for determining the percent chelation in a dry mixture.” By following the process of the patent, which involves FT-IR spectroscopy expertise, companies can determine the presence of a chelate, as well as the percent of the mineral that is actually chelated in a dry powder. The testing procedure has been through the AOAC single laboratory validation protocol, and is in process of being published in the AOAC officially recognized guidelines for testing this ingredient form. Albion (www.albion-an.com) noted this is the first and only single-laboratory process that can be used to determine the amount of a mineral in a mineral amino acid chelate powder that is chelated to the amino acid ligand.