Apr 25, 2017

Modular Genetics Surfactants Awarded 100% USDA Certified Biobased Content and Palm Oil Free® Certification 4/24/17 WOBURN, Mass.--( BUSINESS WIRE )--Modular Genetics, Inc. (Modular) is a sustainable chemistry company utilizing advanced technology in synthetic biology to produce specialty chemicals that are cost competitive, provide superior performance and are environmentally friendly. Surfactants are the chemicals that give bubbly products such as shampoos their cleaning power. Traditionally, surfactants have been manufactured using chemical methods that rely on petroleum or palm oil, with serious negative environmental impacts. Modular has developed “green” technologies that use a biobased approach to produce surfactants without using oil--no petroleum and no palm oil. Modular is honored to report that the surfactants it produces using this technology have been awarded important certifications from both the United States Department of Agriculture (“USDA”) and the Go Palm Oil Free organization (“GPOF” http://www.gopalmoilfree.org/ ) attesting Modular’s achievement of sustainability goals. Specifically, Modular’s AminoSurf-ETM surfactants have earned both the USDA 100% BioPreferred® certification and the GPOF Palm Oil Free certification, and are the only surfactants that have been awarded both certifications. Modular is proud of these achievements, and of their confirmation of the promise of the biobased products industry which, according to Brent Erikson, Executive Vice President, Industrial and Environmental Section, the Biotechnology Innovation Organization (BIO) “contributes over $369 billion to the U.S. economy and has an impact that will grow as companies continue to innovate”. The BioPreferred program in particular was created “to spur economic development, create new jobs, and provide new markets for farm commodities”