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Probiotics may have taken some time to seep into consumer consciousness, especially in the US, but digestive health last year entered the top three fastest growing functional food categories. And with developments in science and technology also come greater opportunities to widen the category beyond the traditional dairy application.
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Probiotics sector forced to swallow the EU’s bitter health claims pill
On a train to Brussels to cover NutraIngredients’ Probiotech and Microbiota two-day probiotic congress, had me wondering of the sector mood now it has had its claims ripped up by...
Live from Probiotech and Microbiota 2013
EU food marketing expert: Consumers don't understand probiotic health claims ban
Most consumers know little to nothing about the EU health claim system, the European Food Safety Authority nor why a blanket ban has been imposed on probiotic marketing across the...
Live from Probiotech and Microbiota 2013
The data jungle: Matching gene content to probiotic traits could offer industry fresh hope
The probiotic industry is fighting several big fights at the minute, not least in the battle to win the first EFSA approved health claim in the market. But are the...
Danone rubbishes Yakult shareholding increase rumours
Danone has dispelled rumours that it is seeking to increase its stake in Yakult – declaring that it has no plans to mount a “hostile bid” for the Japanese company....
Study identifies potential new probiotics for supplements and functional foods
Spanish scientists have identified three bacterial strains that have ‘the potential to be used as probiotics in functional foods’ due to their ability to inhibit the growth of pathogenic strains...
Euromonitor “shocked” by EU probiotic decline
After years and even decades of healthy to rampant growth in the European Union, the probiotics sector has entered decline, with a flat economy and health claim ban seen as...
Probi 2012 sales up 6%, but ProViva royalties set for dive
The European probiotic sector is bracing itself for tough times ahead in the wake of December’s EU health claim ban for the sector, but the effects are yet to be...
Danone juice JV with Chiquita dogged by ‘mismanagement’: Industry source
With rumors emerging that Danone is selling its 51% stake in its fruit juice JV with Chuiquita Brands International, one industry source told BeverageDaily.com that the French firm was likely...
EU food law expert: “In reality mutual recognition does not work effectively”
Mutual recognition – the covenant that assumes what is good enough for one EU member state should be good enough for another – is a mislaid principle when it comes...
Sweden: Ban rejected NHCR nutrients in supplements?; Legal experts: Don’t be silly
Lycopene, lutein, CoQ10, probiotics and any other nutrients rejected under the EU nutrition and health claims regulation (NHCR) could be banned in food supplements, a Swedish government official told a congress...
Chr Hansen backs fresh probiotic immunity trial
Danish probiotics leader Chr Hansen, which ditched a €4m immunity trial for some of its probiotic strains last year, is participating in a new trial to determine if probiotics can...
Global probiotics market to grow 6.8% annually until 2018
A new market analysis says the global probiotics market will surge by 6.8% a year for the next five years, driven by an Asia-Pacific, “expected to be the most prominent market...
Probiotic plus aloe shows cholesterol-lowering potential: Animal data
Combining probiotic Lactobacillus rhamnosus GG supplements with aloe vera may slash cholesterol levels by over 40%, suggests a new study with lab rats.
NHCR article 13 health claims fallout
Valio: How a probiotic firm exists in the “red ocean” of EU health claims
Finnish dairy and probiotics firm Valio says EU health claim laws are forcing it to add approved vitamins and minerals to products like probiotics that have failed to win EU...
Yakult brushes aside claims that poor management led to Yakult Argentina dissolution
Yakult has brushed aside claims by a number of former employees that its Argentinian business was dissolved as a result of poor management in recent years.
ANH: "EC must face the music for separating botanicals and probiotics"
An article in ‘Nature’ magazine welcoming tough EU health claim laws has highlighted the conundrum facing EU regulators if the Union is to adopt different claim-substantiation criteria for about 2000...
‘We’ve launched world’s first probiotic coffee’: Tipton Mills
Tipton Mills claims to have launched the world’s first probiotic coffee, which uses a new probiotic developed by Ganeden Biotech, and says one serving contains 10 times as many cultures...
Probiotic society disputes research bias accusations
The International Scientific Association for Probiotics and Prebiotics (ISAPP) has refuted accusations that probiotic researchers under-report negative or neutral results due to corporate interest.
Symrise-Probi partnership to deliver probiotic goods in 2014-15
German fragrance and flavours house Symrise has just last night inked a deal with Swedish probiotics firm Probi to develop a stand-alone R&D project with oral probiotic supplements the most...
Italy proposes €500 fines for prohibited health claims: “Cheaper to violate than comply”
As attention turns to the enforcement of the EU’s controversial article 13, general function health claims list after a six month waiting period, an expert on the ground in Italy...
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Chr Hansen claims long-life probiotic beverage breakthrough
After 20 failed starts, probiotics leader Chr Hansen says it has finally found an ingredient dispensing cap partner that can handle the demands of high speed filling utilised by the...
December 14 EU health claims deadline
Stakeholder vox pop: December 14 EU health claim deadline
With the December 14 enforcement of the EU's article 13 general function health claim list that includes 200+ approved claims and about 1500 rejections just two days away (after a...
New EFSA health claims chief: “I prefer pedagogic behavior”; offers 2013 hope
As the formlisation of the main organ (article 13.1 list) of the nutrition and health claims regulation (NHCR) kicks in this week, Professor Ambroise Martin, the new chair of the...
Russia ponders food supplement marketing restrictions
Russian legislators have proposed restricting food supplement marketing to the medical profession.
World first: Breast milk probiotic launched in Australia
Spanish supplier Biosearch Life is finding success with its patented, immune system-boosting and mastitis battling probiotic isolated from human breast milk in a world-first product launched in Australia this year.
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