Committed to science and innovation

We believe the nutritional, health and medical benefits of our products must be substantiated. We continuously conduct research to understand and scientifically assess their effectiveness through studies performed in-house by our scientists or by carefully selected, third-party research organizations who are leaders in their fields.

Most of our studies are either in vitro or clinical. We minimize in vivo animal research, using it only when no in vitro is available. Such studies strictly follow national and international regulations on animal testing and are conducted by third-party organizations that adhere to the 3Rs ethical framework: Replacement, Reduction and Refining of animal testing. In compliance with European Union Cosmetics Regulation (EC) No 1223/2009, no animal testing has ever been conducted in our research on skin health.

Currently, animal testing is essential in the preclinical research phase to evaluate new therapies and their safe usage in humans, as required by regulatory authorities. However, new research efforts aim to reduce animal testing. Our biomedical gelatins facilitate greater use of in vitro techniques, helping minimize the need for animal testing, including:

• Hydrogels: Gelatin in hydrogels mimics the native extracellular matrix (ECM), providing an effective medium for maintaining cell viability and supporting efficient differentiation.
• Purified gelatins: Purified gelatins can be crosslinked and used as a scaffold for 3D cell culture applications in tissue engineering or organ-on-a-chip (OOAC) models. 3D cell culture more accurately represents the human tissue microenvironment, potentially providing more predictive and physiologically relevant data for preclinical research.