Tamarack Biotics Receives Regulatory Approval To Sell Breakthrough Protein Ingredient As Food Substance

FRESNO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Tamarack Biotics, an emerging leader in protein additives, today announced it has received “Generally Recognized as Safe" (GRAS) approval for TruActive™, the company’s breakthrough milk-based protein product. The GRAS approval gives Tamarack Biotics the right to provide its milk-based protein ingredients as a food substance to manufacturers of products including sports bars, powdered nutrition and powder supplements. Tamarack Biotics is currently conducting or planning three clinical trials to demonstrate the nutritional benefits for elderly vaccine response, therapeutic effects on asthma and for use against respiratory effects and asthma.

“The GRAS approval for TruActive is an important milestone for Tamarack Biotics, the protein supplement market and most importantly, people’s health”

While milk is rich in immune active proteins, there is a challenge when trying to maximize its benefits when selling it to the public. The traditional method of pasteurizing or homogenizing milk through heating destroys many of the immune active proteins that can prevent allergies in babies, stimulate immune systems in the elderly and aid muscle recovery following exercise. Consuming raw milk, in which the immune active proteins remain, invites significant risks from foodborne illnesses like Salmonella, E. coli and Listeria.

Ultraviolet (UV) technology has been used in the water industry for years to effectively and rapidly disinfect water without the use of heat or chemical additives. The challenge has been how to apply a UV purification process to an opaque ingredient like milk. Tamarack Biotics has solved this problem using a patented Turbulator™ technology for which it has the sole rights for its use in milk. Using this breakthrough process, milk is spun into turbulence around a UV lamp, which reduces pathogens to the same safety levels as thermal pasteurization -- without destroying the unique immune qualities of the milk protein.

Tamarack Biotics just cleared a significant regulatory hurdle, receiving GRAS approval, which is the FDA designation that a chemical or substance added to food is considered safe and legal to sell to U.S. consumers. The company has already reached agreements with several leading food supplement companies, which will be shortly launching products to the market based on TruActive.

“The GRAS approval for TruActive is an important milestone for Tamarack Biotics, the protein supplement market and most importantly, people’s health,” said Bob Comstock, founder and CEO, Tamarack Biotics. “Our patent-pending process enables TruActive products to retain more of the natural compounds found in raw milk than was previously possible, and research has clearly demonstrated that these compounds provide valuable benefits for sports and human nutrition.”

Tamarack Biotics is also in the middle of two clinical trials to demonstrate TruActive’s nutritional benefits. The trials include:

• Elderly Vaccine Response. Elderly people’s immune systems become less active and able to respond to a vaccine or illness. This double-blind study of 50 patients, conducted with University of California, Davis, is investigating TruActive’s effect on Pertussis vaccine response. The test began in August 2016 and is expected to be completed in early 2017.
• Mouse-Model Therapeutic Effect on Asthma. This study, which started in January 2017, is being conducted in Switzerland to determine if a therapeutic effect is observed on asthmatic mice who consume TruActive.

In addition to these two studies, an extensive study of TruActive’s ability to reduce allergy development in children is planned by researchers in early 2018 at the University Hospital Munich. This 3,000 post weaning infant study will investigate asthma, atopic dermatitis and food allergy development along with respiratory infections over a five-year period after three years of TruActive consumption.

About Tamarack Biotics

Founded in 2011, Tamarack Biotics produces TruActive™, a range of dairy-based protein ingredients ideal for sports bars, powdered nutrition and powder supplements. Derived from patented UV treatment and low-temperature technologies that achieve the same safety standards as traditionally pasteurized products, TruActive retains more immune active proteins than any other dairy product available today. Go to www.tamarackbiotics.com for more information.