GLG Life Tech Forms New Subsidiary

VANCOUVER, B.C.GLG Life Tech Corporation announced a new subsidiary, AN0C Stevia Solutions Company Limited, which will focus on providing naturally sweetened zero- and reduced-calorie food and beverage formulations to customers outside mainland China.

The new company will be headed by Mr. James Chen who brings over 30 years of consumer beverage and food formulation experience and is responsible for developing many leading food and beverage products in Asian markets including China and Japan. The VP of Technology will be Mr. Kevin Li ,who has been working as GLG's VP of Technology and Chief Engineer. 

AN0C and AN0C Stevia Solutions will provide all-natural ingredients, including sweeteners, flavors and colors in zero or low calorie beverage and food products.  AN0C Stevia Solutions customer mandate is to focus on customer opportunities internationally and AN0C Anhui will focus on opportunities in Greater China, Mainland Taiwan and Hong Kong. 

"The use of stevia in beverage and food applications is not easy because of the more than 10 steviol glycosides that exist in stevia extract which is different than sugar or artificial sweetener that usually has only one single component," Li notes. Rebaudioside A (RA) and Stevioside (STV) are the two steviol glycosides that taste closest to sugar whereas Rebaudioside B (RB) and Rebaudioside D (RD) are the main causes of after-taste. To get the taste as close to sugar as possible, it is necessary to get the RA and STV as pure as possible and to remove as much of the RB and RD as possible to trace amounts. If RD and RB levels are not controlled to trace levels within a limited range, they will not only affect the taste but also it will affect the consistency of the extract from one production batch to the next. Through GLG's extraction technologies, we are able to reduce RD and RB to a limited range that provide for consistency of our stevia extracts to ensure a consistent taste is produced for food and beverage producers one batch to the next. We have also found that the combination of high purity of RA and STV work better than either high purity of RA or high purity of STV on their own do in most of our beverage and food formulas. As a result of this finding, we created BlendSure^TM and it is the main stevia extract that AN0C is working with today in its beverage and food applications. BlendSure^TM has followed the GRAS process and we recently received a letter of no objection from the FDA."

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