LIST OF CREDITS

NAME OF THE PRODUCT:
COCHINILLA
Commercial name of the Product:
CochinillaTechnical
name of the Product:
Dactylapius Coccus Costa
Tariff classification:
Game 0511.99.10.00
General characteristics
The vital cycle of the insect from the position of the egg until she is adult, lasts approximately 128 days.
The males are smaller than the females and helped by their wings and the wind, fly from a trowel to another one, including of a plant to another neighbor, to fulfill their fecundador paper.
The fertilization occurs to all the year, finished east process, the male dies.
By each male insect, they exist approximately of 150 to 200 females and has a period of life of 3 to 4 days, measures 2,2 mm in length.
Class:
Insect Order:
Hemíptero sub. - order:
Dactylopudae Sort:
Dactylopius Species:
Dactylopius Coccus Costa

5.1 General uses product

Cochinilla is used traditionally in Peru from the preincaicas civilizations, to dye hairs of alpaca and cotton. Cochinilla fresh happens through a first process of drying. It can be sold in this presentation. The qualities of cochinilla, “premium”, of first and of second settle down from the carmínico acid content.

5.2 Specific uses product

The natural colorante that is extracted of cochinilla, contains two substances: carmine and the carmínico acidThe carminico acid according to its content: 22,5%, 19,5% and 10% in this presentation demand mainly on the part of the spirit Campari. With the technological development it has been possible to extract, by means of chemical processes the active ingredient of the colorante matter, that is to say, the carmine one of cochinilla. Its use occurs in the following industries:

Pharmaceutical industry.

Carmine in dust or solution used in preparation of grageas and tablets. In alkaline solution one is used in dentífricas pastes, mouthwashes, etc.

Cosmetic Industry.

One is used in face pencils, dusts, pencils for the eyes, etc. From the point of view of quality, the cosmetic industry is most demanding, it only accepts the carmine one of high purity that agrees in tonality with its patterns of quality and color. In addition, and Drug Administration (FDA) for its use in the zone of the eyes is the only colorante approved by the Food.

Nourishing industry.

The inlay consumer is customary to use products of certain tonality of red. The manufacturer uses carmine to color his inlays when she uses pig meat and thus to be able to dye the guts. When the inlay is boiled by the consumer is used carmine in dust. In France it is added to him in form of colorante salt.

6. COUNTRIES THAT PRODUCE COCHINILLA.

The Canary Islands, Mexico, Bolivia, Chile. Peru, is the first world-wide producer of cochinilla, approximately supplies 84% of the world-wide demand, which corresponds to 420 tons per year in average.