EGCG Candy is available

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Dear and Fellow List-Members,

First of all Merry Christmas and/or Happy Holidays

to you and yours. I recently returned from having

attended ASH in San Diego. More about that in other posts.

What I wanted to write about is the availability of

candy containing EGCG, the active ingredient in Green

Tea.

I have liberally cribbed from the CLL Topics website. The full

article by Venkat is at

http://www.clltopics.org/Announcements/EGCGCandies.htm

Canadian supplier Origin Biomedicinals, based in

Halifax, Nova Scotia, is ready to ship its Can-Tea

Max sugar-free hard candy, ideal for slow oral-

mucosal delivery of the EGCG. The product that would

be of interest to CLL patients is Can-Tea MAX, which

according to the company has 78mg. of catechins (71

mg EGCG) per lozenge. The company states the product

is targeted to " health professionals " ; but they have

made it available to CLL Topics members through a

Special Registration. Origin is packaging the

lozenges in 'packs' of 16 each, priced as shown on

their order page.

The links to the Can-Tea MAX page and the company's

home page are also provided here:

http://www.originbiomed.com/pages/cantea_home.html

or

http://www.originbiomed.com/index.html.

You can see a profile of this company at the

following link: Origin Biomedicinals - Complete

Profile.

In addition I have convinced my local Willy Wonka,

Albert Lauber of Neuchatel Chocolates in Oxford, PA

to come up with some really delicious EGCG Candies.

Boutique chocolatier Neuchatel Chocolates of Oxford,

Pennsylvania claims 100mg of EGCG in each of its EGCG-

laced chocolate pieces - available as dark Swiss

chocolates or as sugar-free milk chocolates. I have

sampled these products and find them delicious. My

only problem is that it is too easy to gobble them up

quickly. These too are suitable for putting between

your cheek and gum for delivery of the EGCG through

the oral mucosa. You can go to the EGCG chocolate

order page by clicking on this link:

www.egcg.biz

which will redirect you to their order page. You will

have to agree to the terms of a release form on the

order page before you can place your order.

Neuchatel ships the chocolates in boxes of 40 pieces.

For additional information, please refer to the

Neuchatel website. The company's home page is at:

http://www.neuchatelchocolates.com/index.asp.

You will find some basic information on this small

private company in the Competitive Intelligence

Report from Goliath, and from the Confectioner Source

Book.

Please note that neither I nor any member of CLL

Topics derived any monetary benefit from either of

these enterprises.

Best Wishes,

Bill Duffy