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Country of origin: Belgium

Summary

A Brussels based multinational company active in the consumer goods sector looks for an alternative and innovative technology to replace traditional biocides and preservation approaches. The new biocidal packaging technologies or biocidal approaches sought have to comply with regulations of the cosmetics and household care markets. The company is open to different kinds of cooperation.

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While there is no doubt about the efficacy and cost-effective advantage of the traditional biocides and preservation approaches, there are also increasing market trends for preservative-free products or alternative preservation approaches. In addition, many of the traditional preservation technologies are increasingly involved in regulatory issues and environmental protection concern.
Therefore, the company looks for new alternative biocidal packaging technologies and biocidal approaches to replace these traditional microbial growth control tools and to minimize the potential risks emanating from their use.
Moreover, contrarily to the traditional biocides and preservatives, such as formaldehyde releasers, the targeted developed new biocidal packaging technologies and biocidal approaches should comply with regulatory issues and environmental protection concern.

Technical Specifications / Specific technical requirements:
The targeted biocidal packaging technologies or biocidal approaches should meet the following technical specifications:

- They should have antimicrobial activity and should in particular kill pathogenic microbes and, if possible, selected environmental isolates.
- They should provide sufficient safety data to allow tests by consumers (short term) and broad market application (long term). The searched biocidal materials must comply with toxicological, safety and regulatory requirements of the cosmetics and household care fields.
- Ideally, the company looks for polymeric materials that can protect the biocidal agent from rapid degradation and facilitate its biocidal activity along the lifetime of the product.
- Ideally, the targeted biocidal packaging technologies or biocidal approaches should use available materials that are compatible with finished product formulations with stability and aesthetics (odor, appearance) criteria.
- They should be less aggressive, less expensive than the existing technologies and they must have, at least, the same efficiency.

IP Position:
No intellectual property/freedom to practice obstacles.

The company envisages a 4 stage technical approach:
Stage 1: Execute the fundamental research that establishes the science underlying this product concept and its efficacy.
Stage 2: Confirmatory testing that will facilitate an understanding of the scope and breadth of efficacy (e.g., rate of kill). Data could be generated at the company's and/or at suppliers facilities.
Stage 3: Screening and confirmatory efficacy in a broad spectrum of the company's product cross-category formulations. The company's microbial susceptibility testing success criteria will be used at this stage.
Stage 4: Generation of complementary safety data to meet regulatory requirements according to consumer usage

Partner expertise sought:

- Type of partner sought: SMEs

- Specific area of activity of the partner: Care, hygiene, cosmetics, chemistry, household care.

- Task to be performed by the partner sought: Potential partners should have developed new biocidal packaging technologies or new biocidal approaches, ready to be tested and evaluated. For initial screening, model compounds and developmental materials could be included in early evaluations.
Potential partners should provide an active collaboration on development of structure/function models and techniques for screening. This could include contributions to performance models, analytical methods, formulation approaches and characterization procedures.
Potential partners should provide technological solutions in accordance with regulatory and safety requirements in cosmetics and household care fields.
They should also provide a path to long term commercialization of desired production quantities.

Listed under: Medicine and Health \ Chemistry & Chemical Engineering \ Medical Devices

 

Key dates Profile created on: 23 July 2010 Closing date: 19 July 2011

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