The Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN) has launched a “major multi-sector partnership” to provide vitamin A-fortified vegetable oil to 80 per cent of Indonesia’s 230m inhabitants.
Belgian probiotics player Vésale Pharma has applied to the European Patent Office (EPO) for a probiotic microencapsulation technology patent that can deliver probiotics into new blends such as high-dose vitamin C supplements.
Lonza has revealed full year results showing sales gains that helped to drive strong profit growth, despite the impact of REACH and negative currency exchange rates.
Naturex has reported a bumper year of organic growth with sales up 21.6 per cent, and is planning the next stage in its development following the integration of Naturaceutical’s ingredients division.
The Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN) and the New Partnership for Africa's Development (NEPAD) have teamed up for a five-year programme to tackle malnutrition in Africa – particularly among the young.
The UK branch of German pharma player Boehringer Ingelheim has had brain health adverts for a vitamin-based medicine backed by local watchdog, the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA).
It was an Emperor’s New Clothes moment for the US food industry last week, when it was revealed that a major initiative touting its responsible advertising to kids actually allows promotion of many unhealthy foods. Is anyone really surprised?
DuPont would look to move its food ingredients R&D to Denmark following its acquisition of Danisco, and adopt the latter’s Sales and Application development organisation to get ingredients to market, offer documents reveal.
Targeted probiotics could affect the physiology of human fat cells and potentially prevent or help treat conditions such as obesity, according to new Irish research.
Lallemand Bio-Ingredients is promoting a new vegetarian form of vitamin D it says can make a considerable dent in global deficiencies in the ‘sun vitamin’ due its functional food flexibility.
In the second part of this special series on global outsourcing trends NutraIngredients explores how the European Union nutrition and health claims regulation (NHCR) is impacting activity in the contract research organisation (CRO) sector.
UK firm Healthspan has been told to amend marketing materials for herbal-based blends after the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) found advertorial materials in breach of its fair marketing code for making medicinal and unauthorised claims.
Brand owners may be obliged to work with contract manufacturers, but finding the right one can be no easy task. In the first part of our outsourcing special edition, Jules Birch of Works with Water Nutraceuticals explains the challenges – and the implications...
Glanbia has kicked off 2011 by making its second major US sports supplements acquisition in three years – with the $144m debt-free acquisition of leading pre-workout powder specialist, Bio-Engineered Supplements and Nutrition.
Indian authorities have urged greater investment in the functional foods sector to join the battle against malnutrition and obesity, and promote wellness among the country’s 1.1bn population.
The UK Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) has launched a six-week campaign to educate industry and consumers about its new remit to police online communications such as corporate website messaging and social networking sites.
A breastfeeding charity has raised concerns that a new study on breastfeeding advice may be leveraged by the food industry to argue for loser labelling regulations for baby foods.
The Spanish subsidiary of French dairy giant Lactalis has paid €8.28m for 29.9 per cent of the ingredients research division of Spanish dairy group Ebro Foods, which produces the omega-3 forms for Ebro Puleva’s successful €100m+ selling omega-3 milk.
Consumers are showing increasing interest in the ‘aesthetic’ benefits of functional foods, according to a new report from RTS Resource entitled ‘SuperTrends: Health & Well-Being’.
DuPont’s €4.9bn acquisition of Danish probiotics and sweeteners specialist Danisco this week is vindication of the increasing economic viability of functional foods, according to analysts.
With almost 100 people currently in custody and thousands of tonnes of contaminated product seized in China over the last six months, melamine-tainted milk powder is a problem that just will not go away for Beijing.
Criticisms of vitamin-enhanced waters made by the Australian consumer watchdog Choice have been rejected by representatives of the European soft drinks industry.
Greenback Acquisition Corporation, a wholly-owned Royal DSM subsidiary, has begun the formal tender for Martek Biosciences, which DSM announced it was buying for €829m ($1.087bn) last month.
Fuji Chemical Industry Co. is shutting down astaxanthin production at its Hawaiian facility, meaning its total production of the algae-sourced antioxidant will occur at its Swedish base which runs by the name of BioReal.
Danish bioscience firm Chr. Hansen is raising its revenue predictions by 11-13 per cent for 2010/11 after what it describes as “strong growth” in its first quarter from the September 1, 2010 to the end of November.
Royal DSM says it stands to make €129m if it accepts DuPont’s bid and sells its 4.95 per cent stake in Danish supplier Danisco, but has not stated it would accept the offer.
The author of a high-profile study suggesting that a daily Yakult dose could reduce the incidence and severity of upper respiratory tract infection (URTI) has hit back at criticism of his paper by EFSA (the European Food Safety Authority).
DuPont expects to become a ‘premier specialty food ingredients provider’ as a result of acquiring Danisco, and expects it to be particularly complementary to its Solae soy protein business.
European launches of probiotic drinks may have declined in recent years but analysts remain confident that the category still has strong global potential.
European producer of soya-based food and drinks, Alpro is launching next month a functional version of it flagship brand Alpro soya featuring cholesterol-lowering plant sterols
Increasing consumer awareness of the relation between nutrition and health means there are growing opportunities for milk and dairy products launched on a functional foods platform, say Indian researchers.
Danisco is to be snapped up by DuPont for $6.3bn, in a deal Dupont says could create a global leader in industrial biotech – and help drive science-based solutions to the world’s food and fuel challenges.
Israeli supplier Enzymotec has implemented a programme to test for and publicise levels for two chemicals produced by marine life and which produce the "foul odour of sea food”.
Leading European prebiotic and probiotic researchers have begun a campaign to change the EU’s health claims system that has so far unanimously rejected its science.
The Danish Medicines Agency (DKMA) has upped the ante in its campaign against illegal weight loss products containing banned substances such as ephedrine.
EuraCran plans to seek a modification or cancellation of the French DGCCRF notification on the appropriate method for assessing PAC in cranberry products that bear a health claim, as it claims there are “factual or scientific mistakes” in the evaluation.
Vitamin charity Vitamin Angels and DSM’s Sight and Life are addressing vitamin A deficiency in Indian children by establishing a sustainable supply and distribution system promoting “local ownership” of the deficiency problem.
Food supplements can boost athletic performance, according to new advice from the International Olympic Committee (IOC) that marks an about face from earlier positions.
An article 14 children’s development health claim submitted to the European Union by drug giant Merck linking omega-3 form DHA with infant visual development has been approved at committee level by the European Commission.
The French authorities have moved to settle the controversy over conflicting methodologies for quantifying PAC levels in cranberry extracts, determining that the new BL-DMAC method should be used by all companies using the French health claim.
New R&D labs for Stratum Nutrition will allow the company to expand its product offering to include new technologies, as well as consolidating its existing food and dietary supplements applications.
Supplementation with Vitamin D may not benefit stroke patients, suggests new research that also questions a blanket approach to supplementation with the vitamin.
The UK-based Alliance for Natural Health (ANH) is preparing legal action against a new EU law due to take effect on May 1 2011 which could ban thousands of traditional herbal medicines and threatens to drive consumers online to buy unregulated black market...
