The interesting use of argan oil is in traditional medicine as a health improving natural product, for skin, osteoarthritis and digestive issues. In the last decades, research studies have shed light on argan oil chemical composition, and the biological effects of its components. Argan oil is highly enriched with bioactive substances such as tocopherols, carotenoïds, sterols and polyphenol molecules and many other substances. Each of these classes of molecules was shown to exert anti-oxidant, anti-tumor and anti-inflammatory activities in isolated cells and/or animal experiments, Read more: Prof. Dr. Mourad Errasfa, Argan oil's therapeutic potentials.
Recently, ITC publiced 'the State of Sustainable Markets', a report based on a partnership with the Research Institute of Organic Agriculture (FiBL, Switzerland) and the International Institute of Sustainable Development (IISD, Canada). This report outlines data on area, production volume and producers. Fourteen Voluntary Sustainability Standards and its impact are described. Voluntary standards are developed and maintained by organizations like IFOAM (the first, since 1972), FSC, Fairtrade, UTZ and Rainforest Alliance. The latter organizations merged, for more info: www.rainforest-alliance.org/article/rainforest-alliance-utz-merger. We highly recommand reading this report, loaded with statistics and merging trends. Here are some infographics: SULA NYC formulates with ingredients from two completely different geographical regions: the wetlands: Amazon basin and the drylands: Maghreb. We are USDA organic...
Two great options for Ph.D students to get their work noticed even more. The International Journal of Molecular Science has recently publiced the abstracts of the 1st International Symposium on the Beneficial Effects of Argan oil on Human Health, Errachidia, Morocco. for more info: http://www.mdpi.com/1422-0067/18/7/1383/pdf Particpants of the Argan Symposium, FST Faculty in Errachidia Prof.Dr.Mourad Errasfa: Green Medicine/SULA NYC: Trends,Challenges active participation and engagement: Prof. Dr. Tamer Elbayoumi, Associate Professor & Co-Director, Nanomedicine Center of Excellence in Translational Cancer Research, Midwestern University, Glendale, US Swiss based International Journal for Molecular Science, with Guest Editor Dr. Gerard Lizard, will publish end of this year a special edition on Argan oil. Please submit original work to Rayna Ren, IJMS, for consideration....
The Faculty of Science and Technology Errichida, University Moulay Ismail (FSTE) and the Moroccan Society of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (SMBBM) organized 1st. Symposium on the beneficial effects of argan oil on human health. General conclusion: there are plenty proven benefits! SULA NYC is proud to have highlighted benefits on our websites: www.sulanyc.com and www.culinaryarganoil.com. In 3 days 10+ key-note speakers, distinguished professors from Morocco, Europe and the USA captured the attention with their presentations and discussed results with the 100+ audience: academics, (ph-D) students. 6 themes, poster sessions and topics like 'plant abstracts and human health' and 'animal testing and alternative methods' were addressed. We now understand more and more the chemical properties, the benefits on human health -...
