please help improve it or discuss these issues on the talk page . learn how and when to remove these template messages the topic of this article may not meet wikipedia s notability guidelines for companies and organizations . please help to establish notability by citing reliable secondary sources that are independent of the topic and provide significant coverage of it beyond its mere trivial mention . if notability can not be established the article is likely to be merged redirected or deleted . find sources blis technologies news newspapers books scholar jstor free images october 2011 learn how and when to remove this template message this article is an orphan as no other articles link to it . please introduce links to this page from related articles ; try the find link tool for suggestions . february 2012 this article contains content that is written like an advertisement . please help improve it by removing promotional content and inappropriate external links and by adding encyclopedic content written from a neutral point of view . october 2011 learn how and when to remove this template message learn how and when to remove this template message bliss technologies limited type public traded as nzx blt industry biotechnology predecessor tarn holdings limited founded 2000 headquarters dunedin new zealand products blis k12 oral care subsidiaries blis functional foods limited website blis.co.nz blis technologies limited is a new zealand biotechnology company that develops healthcare products based on strains of bacteria that produce bacteriocin like inhibitory substances . it sells its patented probiotics k12 & m18 as throat care products direct to market and as a food ingredient via distributor stratum nutrition . contents 1 history 2 awards 3 recent developments 4 references history edit professor john tagg of the microbiology department at the university of otago gathered and extensively catalogued a collection of more than 2000 blis producing bacteria over period of more than 30 years . blis technologies limited then acquired the rights to this unique collection of blis producing bacteria from the university of otago in new zealand and in july 2001 the company was listed on the new zealand stock exchange . in the time since its listing on the new zealand stock exchange the company has developed consumer products for throat health halitosis bad breath complete body support and immune stimulation . 1 blis technologies has been hit by numerous delays in gaining regulatory approval that has slowed its product development and has to frequently raise new capital to cover on going financial losses . 2 in 2011 blis took over the assets and brand names of gourmet ice cream company and now sells dairy products with probiotics in new zealand on a small scale through its subsidiary blis functional foods . awards edit 2010 frost and sullivan global ; food and beverage ingredients ; entrepreneurial company of the year 3 recent developments edit as of 30 november 2011 blis terminated its distribution agreement with frutarom due to their inability to market their clinically proven products and sought a new distribution arrangement with stratum nutrition . as a result united states sales raised from 682k to 976k for the half year and the company reported its biggest gainto date . 4 frutarom as a result has filed for bankruptcy and has fired their entire staff . in 2011 blis k12 received gras generally recognised as safe status from the united states food and drug administration enabling the probiotic to be used as a food additive . 5 references edit about blis . blis technologies . blis lowers loss hit by regulatory delays . new zealand herald . 30 may 2006 . 2010 global ; food and beverage ingredients ; entrepreneurial company of the year . frost & sullivan . half year report 2011 pdf . rae sally 20 september 2011 . blis k12 fda certification opens way for global launch . otago daily times . retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title blis technologies & oldid 740678710 categories technology companies of new zealandhealth care companies of new zealandbiotechnology companiescompanies based in dunedincompanies established in 2000companies listed on the new zealand stock exchangehidden categories articles with topics of unclear notability from october 2011all articles with topics of unclear notabilityorphaned articles from february 2012all orphaned articlesarticles with a promotional tone from october 2011all articles with a promotional toneuse dmy dates from march 2011 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 add links this page was last modified on 22 september 2016 at 15 48 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; 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