Alimentation Equilibree Commentry

At the same period, about 160 miles eastward, in the Auvergne city of Commentry, a chemical plant named Alimentation Equilibree Commentry (AEC), produced some synthetic food additives such as vitamins, methionine and lysine for the intensive farming of chicken and porks. A spin-off company of AEC named I Equilibre Biologique was then created with the objective to develop some amino-acid derived drugs for human use. The two companies, ATP and TEquilibre Biologique, merged in 1945 under the control of TAlimentation Equilibree. 

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