In the market there is not any nutritional product, using the same active material, because the process of INAGROSA for obtaining L-amino acids (AA) and oligopeptides of short molecular weight and biologically active handling them stabilized and in commercial packaging, is unique.
In Europe, USA and Australia are selling biofertilizers with different trade marks by one manufacturer to whom INAGROSA has granted a licence supplying to him the active material formulating them in one factory located in Belgium.
There are in the market many plant organic nutrients as protein hydrolyzed or similar. Some of them are pretty good effective, but only in the terms of providing organic nitrogen to the plants, obtained through enzymatic hydrolysis. Other protein hydrolyzed products manufactured in China, India, Spain and other countries using a very low cost process of acid hydrolysis with sulphuric acid hydrolyzing slaughter-house or dairy industry waste obtaining a black, bad odour liquid products traded as “nutrient containing amino acids” which are of poor quality and very low cost, containing high percentage of heavy metals, EU has announced that they will be banned right 2010.
The production of amino acids through fermentative process, using specific strains of Brevibacterium and Corinumbacterium for releasing amino acids in the culture media has an old tradition with high level of technology and know-how in Japan. Lately using microorganisms genetically manipulated (OGM) for increasing the production of amino acids. The problem of this process is to face the difficulty to take away from the culture media the amino acids completely free of impurities, which limit their use for animal nutrition. In agriculture are not used or used in few cases.