Agreement Yields Chewing Gum Delivery System

Targeting the U.S. supplement market, Indena USA, Seattle, WA, has partnered with Gum Base Co.’s Perfetti Van Melle Group to offer a chewing gum delivery system for some of Indena’s extracts, which include Opextan, Mirtoselect, Leucoselect, Ginselect and Immunoselect, among others. The Compressed Powder Gum (CPG) is a unique technology, using a “cold” and “dry” pro­cess to make fortified chewing-gum tablets, which does not destroy the active principles added to the gum, offering a new drug delivery system along with the beneficial oral effects of a traditional chewing-gum.