Olympic Seafood AS Enters Research Collaboration

11 Nov 2014 --- Olympic Seafood AS, a fishing company based on the Norwegian west coast, has signed an agreement regarding research collaboration with Oslo and Akershus University College of Applied Sciences and the University of Oslo. The company owns the Rimfrost brand.

Olympic Seafood AS has license to harvest krill in the Antartic Ocean and to produce krill oil. Potential health effects from krill oil supplements are part of what the researchers will try to establish from this collaboration. A novel 'omics' technology will be utilized to identify new biomarkers that may help better our understanding of how non-communicable diseases can be prevented by consuming nutrients of marine origins.

"This project is part of the research group's 'Dietary Intervention Studies and Health Effects in Humans' at Oslo and Akersus University College of Applied Sciences and 'Clinical nutrition, atherosclerosis and inflammation', said professor Kirsten Holven at UiO and Associate Professor Stine Ulven at HiOA.

"A PhD candidate will be engaged through the Oslo and Akersus University College of Applied Sciences and his/ her degree will be based on the research project," continued Holven and Ulven. "An intervention study will be carried out where we look at underlying mechanisms of health effects from krill oil supplements and fish. The project shows how research partnerships between academic institutions and the industry can contribute to increased knowledge that is important to the society by documenting health effects of food supplements and fish."

"We are very satisfied with this long-term collaboration with two well-known and respected contributors within human nutrition research," said research director Inge Bruheim at Olympic Seafood AS. "This partnership is important for Olympic Seafood AS and part of the company's strategy to build further on the documentation of positive health effects of Pimfrost Sublime Antarctic krill oil," said Bruheim.