Notice regarding the acquisition of registration of microalgae Euglena (Japanese name: Euglena) as a "new food ingredient" in China
-Registration approved by the Ministry of Health of China, we will start selling foods containing Euglena throughout China-

Euglena Co., Ltd.

Euglena Co., Ltd. (Headquarters: Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, President: Mitsuru Izumo) announces that microalgae Euglena (Japanese name: Euglena) has been registered as a "new food ingredient" in China. I will do it. It was announced on the website of the Ministry of Health of China on November 26th.

　"New food ingredients" is a registration system required to sell food ingredients that have no eating habits or new technologies in China, and it is necessary to obtain registration approval after examination by the Ministry of Health of the People's Republic of China. Will be. With the cooperation of a local company, we have acquired the registration of "new food ingredients", and now we can sell foods using the Euglena Regarding sales, we will collaborate with ITOCHU Corporation, our capital alliance partner (scheduled to start sales in January 2014).

　In China, the health food market has been growing in recent years, and the China Health Association has announced that the market size will grow by more than 10% every year until 2015 *. Euglena microalgae is growing in sales in Japan as a healthy food with 59 kinds of abundant nutrients. In addition, as an overseas strategy of our medium-term management target by 2018, we have set "Euglena foods to 30 billion yen overseas, mainly in Asia", and we are aggressively selling in China. We aim to achieve our management goals by deploying them. * Research by Yano Research Institute Co., Ltd.
　The details are as follows.

About the registration of "new food ingredients" for the microalgae Euglena

■ Public notice date regarding registration
　November 26, 2013 (local to China)
■ Registration target
　Microalgae Euglena (Japanese name: Euglena)
■ Registered name
　Naked algae (reading: Rozoa)
■ About new food ingredients
　Due to the measures of the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare of China (equivalent to the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare of Japan), food ingredients that have no eating habits in China and food ingredients using new technology will be examined as new food ingredients.
　It has become. This time, under this system, the microalgae Euglena produced by our company has been approved for registration as a "new food ingredient".
　* In October 2013, the system name was changed from "new resource foods" to "new food ingredients".

About Euglena Co., Ltd.
Head Office / Research Institute: 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo University Entrepreneur Plaza 7th floor
Sales: 2,091 million yen (consolidated, FY09 / 13)
Number of employees: 75 (consolidated, as of October 31, 2013)
Business: In 2005, we succeeded in developing the Euglena Using Euglena we develop and sell functional foods, cosmetics, etc., and conduct research for water purification and biofuel production. Listed on TSE Mothers in December 2012.

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-Contact for inquiries from the press-
Euglena Co., Ltd. Public Relations and IR Division