date:Nov 27, 2012
Food manufacturers could benefit from cheaper supplies of dried sodium alginate, after scientists developed new technology to process the food gelling agent from seaweed extracts.
Marine Biopolymers received 70,000 funding from Scottish Enterprise to carry out laboratory studies with Strathclyde University to test its new production process.
David Mackie of Marine Biopolymers said: The collaboration with the University of Strathclyde has allowed us to develop a world-class manufacturing proces