NRC offers technical services and creates enabling technologies for clients and partners. Companies count on NRC to help add value to existing NHPs and product line extensions. NRC can identify and characterize bioactives from marine and terrestrial natural resources for functional foods, NHPs and personal care markets. NRC also co-develops functional ingredients and reference standards, optimizes formulation, and conducts pre-clinical, efficacy and mechanism-of-action studies to support evidence-based claims. (CHFA)(LSBC)