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Article: UN GRANTS FIRST EVER PATENT FOR COCONUT WATER TO PHILIPPINES.
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- July 15, 2004
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MANILA, July 15 Asia Pulse - The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations (UN), has granted the first ever UN patent for coconut water to the Philippines.
Morton Satin, chief of FAO's Agricultural Industries and Post-harvest Management Service, has developed a cold sterilization technology for coconut water that will allow manufacturers to bottle coconut water without losing its flavor and nutritional characteristics.
Satin said the new technology holds tremendous promise for tropical countries like the Philippines. "Countries that process or export coconuts and small farmers who grow them will be the main beneficiaries," Satin said ...