Bio2com’s NutraFiles version 2.0 contains about 200 ingredients at present, a number that will be increased to 500 by year’s end.
Food and supplements industry players can gain access to the database by paying between €1200 and €2200 per year depending on the depth of coverage, or buying credits as part of a pay-as-you-go system.
Bio2com executive director Karin E. Nielsen told NutraIngredients.com this morning NutraFiles 2.0 did not as yet have any customers, but interest had been shown from major food makers, some of whom had participated in the development of the prototype.
“We have taken feedback and implemented changes, improved features so that it is now ready to take subscriptions,” she said.
Benchmarks
NutraFiles employs a benchmarking system to screen ingredient information including checks with the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to ascertain regulatory status; checks with science databases; checks with market researchers for market information and trademarks.
Subscribers can search the database for product types or health categories such as weight management or heart health. Blended ingredients are also profiled.
“The benefit of this system is that it is a real time saver,” Nielsen said. “We have a lot of data compiled in a structured way which can save companies a lot of time and resources.”
Bio2com recently joined with IP specialist, Sagacious, to deliver market reports, the first being on the area of immunity and due around the end of the year.
Bio2com expects that Sagacious will improve NutraFiles 2.0 from an intellectual property point of view.
Ingredient categories in the database include antioxidants, fibres, omega fatty acids, phospholipids, stanols and sterols, vitamins and sugars.
Health areas include adolescence, metabolism, nerve and skeletal.