SPAIN – Spanish dairy Puleva’s Biotech subsidiary is to launch an anti-cholesterol compound aimed at the global dairy market.

The company, which develops natural food additives, is set to introduce CV-17, a variant of the Omega-3 essential fatty acid found in oil-rich fish, in March this year.

Company president Javier Tallada told the Reuters news agency that the compound will replace animal fats used in products such as milk and yogurt: “By 2010, more than 50% of the dairy products that contain these so-called bad fats will instead use this new one.”