Health: a new food supplement against dysentery

Developed by the Turval Laboratories, Scientific Park of Udine

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(ANSA) - UDINE – The children from Chad, Somalia, and Rwanda could have a better chance at surviving dysentery thanks to a dietary supplement produced in Friuli and then taken to these countries by the non-profit organization, Onlus. The news was given by Friuli Innovazione, specifying that “it has to do with the lactic yeast probiotic Kluyveromyces B0399, which is an active ingredient approved by the Italian Ministry of Research and Health and recognized by the American Food and Drug Administration as well as the European Authority for Food Safety. The probiotic was examined and produced by Turval Laboratories, an agency in the biotechnology sector that was established in 2005 at the Parco Scientifico e Tecnologico di Udine.