Morinaga

Morinaga BioScience, Inc. was founded in 1973 as the biochemical laboratory of the research institute of Morinaga & Co,. Ltd., a Japanese historical confectionary manufacturer. With superior immunoassay technology, Morinaga BioScience developed insulin ELISA kits that are indispensable in the development of diabetes medicine. These were first products released to market. They are used in a large number of research studies and are highly regarded internationally. In Japanese market share has grown to around 90 %.

Morinaga BioScience is also using advanced technology in the field of food safety to produce food allergen test kits. The history of food allergen test kits began when the parent company, Morinaga & Co., began selling cookies called “Amaranth Cookies” that contained no milk, egg and soy.

ELISA kits that test milk, egg, and soy protein are used for this product, which contributed to the development of products that people with allergies can safely eat. In the same way as insulin ELISA kits, these food allergen test kits are major products in the company that are regularly used by not only food companies and official institutes in Japan, but also service labs, food companies and government institutes abroad today.