1994 headquarters israel key people yosef behrend ceo maksim gur r & d products special bioactive compounds for research and active pharmaceuticals for clinical trials . divisions r & d microbiology chemistry natural products website http www.fermentek.com fermentek ltd. is a biotechnological company in the atarot industrial zone of jerusalem israel . it specializes in the research development and manufacture of biologically active natural products isolated from microorganisms as well as from other natural sources such as plants and algae . the main microorganisms used are nonpathogenic actinomycetes nocardia and streptomycetes . the fungi used are penicillium aspergillus fusarium and the like . none of these is a human pathogen . fermentek does not sell to individuals . most of its products are marketed through major international distributors specializing in chemicals under their own brand names . nevertheless fermentek has specific impact on the biochemical market especially in the field of mycotoxins . mycotoxins are toxic compounds produced by molds in human food and farm animal feeds thus being economically important factors . fermentek manufactures an extensive line of pure mycotoxins used as standards in food analysis . 1 in some cases such as aflatoxin m2 fermentek supplies the entire world s requirements . 2 in 2009 fermentek announced a product family of highly standardized calibrant solutions of main mycotoxins . these are marketed under the brand name fermasol . in 2010 it obtained iso 13485 accreditation in connection with the production of starting materials for experimental drug production and with manufacturing of reference standards of food contaminants . none of fermentek s products have been invented by it . fermentek s aim is to make known compounds affordable to the scientific community . fermentek was founded by dr yosef behrend in 1994 . it moved in 2004 to its new building quadrupling its working space and greatly enlarging its manufacturing capacities . contents 1 technology 2 main products 3 see also 4 references 5 external links technology edit fermentek operates fermentors from 10 to 15000 liters filter presses and centrifuges of matching capacity . according to the company policy as declared at its official website fermentek uses only the classical biotechnology approach . this means that only genetically unmodified natural microbial strains are employed and no attempt is made to achieve mutants neither random nor targeted . main products edit mycotoxins aflatoxin cytochalasin fumonisins gliotoxin patulin penicillic acid zearalenone tentoxin deoxynivalenol citrinin t2 toxin ht2 toxin tentoxin moniliformin deacetoxyscirpenol neosolaniol citreoviridin beauvericin nivalenol tenuazonic acid alternariol alternariol methyl ether immunomodulators tacrolimus sirolimus ascomycin myriocin ionophores valinomycin nonactin ionomycin special antibiotics and molecular biology reagents . anisomycin thiolutin wortmannin k252a staurosporine k252c bafilomycin alamethicin leptomycin a23187 chelerythrine oligomycin trichostatin a cerulenin aphidicolin experimental drugs and drug precursors parthenolide puromycin rapamycin anisomycin thapsigargin cyclopamine thiostrepton staurosporine mithramycin midostaurin geldanamycin and its derivates 17 dmag 17 aag prodigiosin see also edit fungal isolates streptomyces isolates references edit mycotoxin fact sheet by european commission institute for reference materials and standards 3rd mycotoxin fact sheet by european commission institute for reference materials and standards 4th edition external links edit official website biojerusalem an initiative of the jerusalem development authority matimop matimop the israeli industry center for r & d israeli ministry of industry chemical authority bio israel about fermentek bioisrael the hubsite of israel s life sciences community and a leading source of news and information retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title fermentek & oldid 712890640 categories biotechnology companies of israelbiotechnologyresearch support companiescompanies established in 1995 navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages fran aissvenska edit links this page was last modified on 31 march 2016 at 18 03 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; 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