Chemaphor Inc. And Elanco End Relationship

OTTAWA, CANADA--(Marketwire - August 07, 2009) - Chemaphor (TSX VENTURE: CFR) announced today that they have agreed to end their relationship with Elanco, the animal health division of Eli Lilly and Company, and with this to terminate their contractual arrangement, effective immediately. All rights to Chemaphor’s technology revert to Chemaphor without restriction, enabling Chemaphor to immediately engage in partnership discussions with other interested global animal health care companies in the poultry, swine, cattle and aquaculture markets.

Chemaphor is a health and wellness company that has multiple product opportunities within multiple markets. Chemaphor continues to pursue development and commercialization strategies for each of these markets and will provide updates by way of subsequent press releases in the near term.

About Chemaphor

Chemaphor Inc. (www.chemaphor.com) uses its core expertise in chemistry to develop premium products for the animal health, skin care cosmetics, pharmaceutical and specialty chemical markets. Chemaphor’s goal is to fully exploit its proprietary platform of carotenoid oxidation compounds by finding recognized partners to commercialize its products in multiple, large markets.

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