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 Ethical Naturals Inc. (ENI) has been granted a U.S. patent on its whole grape extract ingredient, and the ingredient is patent-pending in China and the European Union.  

 Döhler-Milne Aseptics developed a broad portfolio of ginger flavors for food and beverage applications.  

 Virginia Dare Extract Co., Brooklyn, N.Y., appointed Robert J. Verdi as business director of health and wellness.  

Virginia Dare, Brooklyn, N.Y., appointed Henry W. Todd Jr. as vice president – international. 

 More than 18,000 attendees flocked to Las Vegas to attend the Institute of Food Technologists’ (IFT) 2012 Annual Meeting & Food Expo, June 26-28 at the Las Vegas Convention Center.  

 Pom Wonderful introduced a 100 percent pomegranate juice concentrate for use as an ingredient.  

 Roquette America is known for its creativity in developing beverage products with its innovative vegetable-based product platform, according to the company.  

Eagan, Minn.-based Biothera’s Wellmune WGP ingredient was found to offer a 40 percent reduction in upper-respiratory tract infection symptomatic days in long-distance runners, according to clinical research presented at the American College of Sports Medicine. 

 DD Williamson and ColorMaker Inc. invite attendees at the Institute of Food Technologists (IFT) Annual Meeting and Food Expo, June 25-28 in Las Vegas, to visit The Color House at booth 1551.  

 The peer-reviewed journal Nutrition published the results of a study that found that students at the U.K.’s Southampton University Medical School who took Wellmune WGP, an immune health ingredient marketed by Biothera, Eagan, Minn., for 90 days reported fewer days of cold and flu symptoms than their placebo-controlled classmates.