Polyethylene glycol esters of polyunsaturated fatty acids
AssigneeScotia Holdings PLC
InventorsPaul Andrew Wakefield, Philip Knowles, Mehar Singh Manku, David Frederick Horrobin
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Abstract
A nutritional, cosmetic or pharmaceutical formulation comprising esters of polyethylene glycol in which the polyethylene glycol chain is terminated at one end by a polyunsaturated fatty acyl group, preferably C18-C22 and at the other end by a C1-C4 alkyl group, preferably a methyl group.
Claims8
A nutritional, cosmetic or pharmaceutical formulation which comprises at least one ester of polyethylene glycol in which the polyethylene glycol chain is terminated at one end by a polyunsaturated fatty acyl group and at the other end by a C1-C4 alkyl group and the ester is 0.5-30% soluble in water at 25° C.
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