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Environment

DIC Opens U.S. Algae Research Center

by Jean-François Tremblay
September 21, 2015 | A version of this story appeared in Volume 93, Issue 37

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Spirulina is consumed as a health food.
Spirullina an algae people eat for health reasons.
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Spirulina is consumed as a health food.

Japan’s DIC has opened a $2 million algae research center at its U.S. spirulina algae subsidiary, Earthrise Nutritionals, in Calipatria, Calif. The facility will conduct a broad range of activities, from the development of algae extracts for use in health foods to the identification of efficient growing techniques for algae that can be used in biofuels. A spirulina producer since the 1970s, DIC farms algae both in California as well as on the island of Hainan in southern China.

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