US 7,732,488 B2 · Pharmaceutical composition comprising low concentrations of environmental pollutants

Abstract

The invention relates to a process for decreasing the amount of environmental pollutants in a mixture comprising a fat or an oil, being edible or for use in cosmetics, the fat or oil containing the environmental pollutants, which process comprises the steps of adding a volatile working fluid to the mixture, where the volatile working fluid comprises at least one of a fatty acid ester, a fatty acid amide, a free fatty acid and a hydro-carbon, and subjecting the mixture with the added volatile working fluid to at least one stripping processing step, in which an amount of environmental pollutant present in the fat or oil, being edible or for use in cosmetics, is separated from the mixture together with the volatile working fluid. The present invention also relates to a volatile environmental pollutants decreasing working fluid, for use in decreasing an amount of environmental pollutants present in a fat or oil, being edible or for use in cosmetics. In addition, the present invention relates to a health supplement, a pharmaceutical and an animal feed product prepared according to the process mentioned above.

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Dependent claims

A pharmaceutical composition comprising a marine oil which comprises eicosapentaenoic acid ethyl ester and docosahexaenoic acid ethyl ester in a pharmaceutically effective concentration to therapeutically treat hypertriglyceridaemia,

wherein the concentration of brominated flame retardants in the pharmaceutical composition is less than 0.2 μg/kg as measured by the concentration of BDE 47, and
wherein said pharmaceutical composition is not a health supplement.

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Pharmaceutical composition comprising low concentrations of environmental pollutants

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Pharmaceutical composition comprising low concentrations of environmental pollutants

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