Profile: Diversified Natural Products is an industrial biotechnology company that develops and commercializes patent protected products for the chemical & healthcare industries. We offer consumer natural products for treating chronic diseases, with fewer side effects and long-term toxicity risks than prescribed drugs. Our division provides fermentation technology for making organic acids such as succinic acid from agricultural crops. Our product HEP-40 is a natural cholesterol-lowering product that is ideally suited as a dietary supplement. It has been shown to be more effective than any other natural product in lowering cholesterol. This product is derived from food grade chitosan, which is a fiber that is obtained from the exoskeletons of shellfish, that has been highly deacetylated.