November 9/Vancouver, B.C./Marketwire -- Functional Technologies Corp. (FTC) signed an agreement enabling an undisclosed leading European producer of sweet & savory baked goods, snacks and confectionaries to evaluate FTC’s proprietary acrylamide-preventing (AP) yeast technology in the partner's commercial materials used to produce many of their branded food products.
According to a FTC release, the partner is regarded as a top-tiered confectionary producer in Europe and is seeking innovative strategies that mitigate acrylamide in numerous products, but with minimal impact on sensory attributes of the end-product. Given previous successful studies, including in end-user provided commercial materials for the production of non-bread products, the application of FTC’s AP yeast products are expected to yield valuable, affirmative data. Its AP yeast platform will be evaluated in pre-pilot scale trials that simulate commercial conditions, which should also simultaneously enable preliminary development of production protocols.