26 MARINE INGREDIENTS
Connecting you to magical marine active ingredients
n Jérôme Loeuil – Seppic, France
Seppic, along with its dedicated brand for cosmetic active ingredients WeSource™, connects formulators to the magical world of marine actives. Biotechmarine is a subsidiary of Seppic and is one of the technology pillars dedicated to marine active ingredients, within WeSource. The Bréhat archipelago, or ‘underwater Amazon’, is a unique environment in Brittany (France): a pure and preserved site, providing us with inspiration. We create substantiated actives by fully respecting the natural biodiversity and developing biotechnologies in harmony with the marine ecosystem, exploring new depths and still discovering new possibilities. WeSource by Seppic works to: act in a responsible way; work with local harvesters or growers of plants or seaweeds; be committed in the respect of biodiversity; guarantee traceability. WeSource by Seppic offers more than 100 natural active ingredients. Half of these are marine active ingredients. We are convinced that a marine active ingredients supplier should be committed in four Ts:
Traceability Traceability is ensuring where the natural raw materials come from and track each step in the process. For that purpose, our factory in Brittany (France) is located in a dynamic location, allowing us to closely work with local government regulators and local harvesters.
Transparency Transparency is ensuring a strict control concerning potential contaminants for utmost safety. WeSource is committed to a ‘Safety First’ policy for all our stakeholders. More and more the company describes its practices and processes, allowing brands and final consumers to understand and select the products they use on a daily basis.
Testing Testing is allowing to challenge and standardise the composition of the raw materials; testing at each step of a product’s development is the pathway for identification, regulatory, safety, efficacy.
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Figure 1: As 70% of our marine ingredient offer is sourced in Brittany (France) as shown in this image, our commitments comply with local regulation of harvesting.
Trust Trust is not a choice we can assume. This is a commitment that brands and final consumers can rely upon with our portfolio. This means that we are committed to permanently engage our best practices in order to deserve and reinforce trust from our stakeholders, by demonstrating and openly sharing how we work with the compliance of three aforementioned Ts.
Innovation by ensuring traceability As 70% of our marine ingredient portfolio is sourced in Brittany (France), our commitments comply with local regulation of harvesting. Regulation and Control of seaweed harvest or culture is managed in France by each regional fishery committee such as CRPMEM1
Brittany. ‘Regional
Committee for Maritime Fisheries and Marine Breedings of Brittany’ is a non- profit organisation established to safeguard seafood supplies with a global sustainable and responsible marine ecosystem concern. The rules comply with a directive officially edited by European parliament concerning the quality of water. The ‘high ecological quality’ of sea water depends on the chemical and ecological status resulting from: Biological status due to the presence of species, Hydromorphological status, Physicochemical status (temperature,
oxygen, nutrients, salinity). This Directive also considers the sanitary conditions (distance from a potential source of contamination).CRPMEM handles conditions of marine sustainable resources through: the definition of good practices guidelines2
; an annual follow up of potential
risks, an evaluation of the potential impact relative to periods of harvesting or weather conditions; a lead on social initiative in the field, a lead for the defence of stakeholders’ interests. Each seaweed harvester needs an annual licence before operating. The personal licence precisely describes the authorised species, respective volumes and areas for harvesting based on official mapping. Each harvester follows the rules described in the good practices guidelines, such as: Do not harvest the entire algae, Leave the algae holdfast and the base of the stipe, thereby allowing the seaweed to grow again; Do not harvest the whole ‘field’. Reproduction cells can be dispersed no further than a few metres. Leaving a certain density allows each species to recolonise for the following years; use a knife rather than a sickle in order to optimise chance for the seaweed to grow; Do not move the rocks, harvest seaweed fixed on the rocks, rather than washed up on the shore; Do not harvest close to a pollutant source. The controls are carried out in several
June 2020
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