BASF is to shut down production of vitamin B2 at its facility in Gunsan, South Korea, for a routine overhaul for a few weeks in August 2009.

BASF will continue to meet all its supply commitments to customers during that time. Vitamin B2 (riboflavin) is used in animal and human nutrition. BASF's fermentatively produced vitamin B2 is GMO free.

BASF's Nutrition Ingredients business unit is a leading supplier of food ingredients and feed additives. The product portfolio includes vitamins, carotenoids, enzymes, organic acids and others.

BASF is the world's leading chemical company, and its portfolio ranges from chemicals, plastics and performance products to agricultural products, fine chemicals and oil and gas.