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__The Reichstein Process- The method for synthesizing Vitamin C. __


 * __HISTORY:__**

This particular process was developed by Scientist Tadeus Reichstein alongside with his mates in the year 1933. This process used to produce ascorbic acid from glucose now known as the Reichstein Process. The process was sold to Hoffman La Roche, 2 years later after the development of this process. The two-step fermentation process was later on developed in China in February 1969.

__**USES OF VITAMIN C or ASCORBIC ACID:**__

Vitamin C or Ascorbic acid helps to forming collagen, cartilage, muscle and the blood vessels. It also maintains the bones and teeth and the absorption of iron. It also needed to growth and repair of tissues in all your body parts. It also used to form an important protein that is used to make skin, tendons, ligament and blood vessel. It also helps to heal the wounds. Vitamin C is also classified as anti- oxidants. Ascorbic Acid can also treat anemia and maintain the acid of urine. It helps to reduce the pH and scavenges oxygen that is potentially harmful bacteria, and helps to get rid of colds.

__**ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT:**__

This particular process has been fully characterized in order to identify the effluent discharge, air emissions and solid wastes or toxins that it generates. The pollution prevents the principles that have been adopted at the source that includes the elimination of chlorinated solvents it also captures and recycled the solvents as well as the process materials to minimize the raw material consumption.

The process of this particular concept is supported by the wide range services of on-site utility services. This utility helps to relate the provision of energy from a combined heat and power plant as well as chemical and biological effluent the treats the system achieves as very high level of biodegradation of the process. The final way to extract the wastes and toxin is by discharging it to a public sewer and passes to through a treatment works serving the local population and the industry before they are finally going to discharge it into the sea via a long out fall. The infrastructure of this site is subjected to routine checks to ensure the protection of the environment.

The production of Ascorbic Acid is the facility to regulate the conditions that limits the emissions for prescribed substances to air, water and land.

About 45% of the bulk raw material that has been supplied to the Dalry site by rail, thus it decreases the road traffic and its related impact. This underpins on the sites of general “good neighbor” approach the local community.

The combination of gas heat and power plant has a lot of joint capacity of 248MW in where it is fully authorized process in complying with the right applicable legislation. The excess electricity is also been generated that support the national grid network and shows the relatively clean energy source.

__**ECONOMICS:**__

Manufacturers accounted up to 67% of the world output of vitamin C in 2004. It is significantly Chinese Vitamin C the produces more supply that 80% that is used in the US market. Without further due the price competition is highly concentrated in industry for homogeneous commodity product is severe.

Unlike the other industry with small investors selling homogeneous products is an oligopolistic with fair bit of higher investors that could easily raise the competition and its price, this could also be understandable in a country that has been buffeted by anti-dumping charges for selling below cost in many exported products form less concentrated industries.The Spot Price for Vitamin C shot up, up to $2.8 to $7 a kilo soon after the meeting. This economic is set to the stage for civil antitrust lawsuits form feed- supplement.

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