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History
| 1972 | Itoham Foods Inc, Central Research Institute, established in the Tokyo office. |
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| 1987 | American Peptide Company established in Silicon Valley, CA, U.S.A. |
| 1990 | Itoham Foods Inc, Central Research Institute, relocated to Moriya City, Ibaraki Pref., Japan. |
| 1991 | “Hemron,” an iron-rich food supplement that includes heme iron, marketed. |
| 1992 | Manufacturing license acquired for “Thrombin,” a drug substance. c-GMP facility for pharmaceutical peptide production built. |
| 1994 | ELCATONIN “ITO,” a drug substance, approved. |
| 1995 | “Liver-Hi,” a liver hydrolysate, marketed as a food supplement. |
| 1996 | “GLUCAGON FOR INJECTION ‘ITO’,” a glucagon formulation, approved. |
| 1999 | “ITORELIN,” a buserelin acetate formulation, approved. |
| 2000 | Health Science Division established in Itoham Foods Inc. |
| 2002 | c-GMP plant of American Peptide Company built in Vista, CA, U.S.A. “MINIHEPA INJECTION 500,” a parnaparin sodium formulation, approved. |
| 2003 | Ito Life Sciences, Inc. established. “VETERINARY ITORELIN INJECTION,” a busererin acetate formulation, approved. “L-Carnitine” and “L-Carnitine Fumarate” marketed. |
| 2004 | “RESOLMIN INJECTION 1000,” a dalteparin sodium formulation, approved. |
| 2008 | All the shares of Ito Life Sciences, Inc. including American Peptide Company and Ito Life Sciences (Shanghai), transferred to Otsuka Chemical Co., Ltd. |
| 2009 | The company name changed to ILS Inc. |
| 2011 | “L-Carnitine L-Tartrate” marketed. |
| 2014 | “Hemron 2HiWS,” a concentrated and water-soluble heme iron product, marketed. |
| 2015 | All the shares of American Peptide Company transferred to Bachem Holding AG. DESMOPRESSIN NASAL SPLAY 0.01% “ILS,” a desmopressin formulation, approved. |
| 2018 | Peptide business transferred to Otsuka Chemical Co., Ltd. All the shares of ILS Inc. transferred to a subsidiary of Goldman Sachs Japan CO., Ltd. and a subsidiary of ORIX Corporation. |
| 2019 | The head office relocated to Kandasuda-cho, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo for business expansion. The former head office changed to Moriya Site. |