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Workers in the final stages of an artisanal panela-making cycle in Versalles, a town in Colombia’s Valle del Cauca.
Colombians Ask: Who Would Dare Patent Panela?
Makers of Latin America’s favorite traditional sweetener say a sugar engineer wants exclusive control of their centuries-old product.
Workers in the final stages of an artisanal panela-making cycle in Versalles, a town in Colombia’s Valle del Cauca.Credit.
Jan. 26, 2021
VALLE DEL CAUCA, Colombia This past April, Jorge González Ulloa, a shareholder at one of Colombia’s largest sugar companies, was awarded U.S. Patent No. 10,632,167, which described a method for making an unrefined sugar containing high levels of policosanols, alcohols found in sugar cane wax that are purported to lower cholesterol.