Inside BENEO’s new pulse plant: pioneering sustainable protein from faba beans
The discovery, development and marketing of food supplements, nutraceuticals and related products are currently the fastest growing segments of the food industry. The first and dominant being ‘Natural is good’, and other secondary, such as
Biotechnology has evolved over the past 20 years from intellectually intriguing biosciences into a diversifying industries which produce useful biologicals from biocatalytic reactions to genetically modified bacteria, fungi, viruses, and plant, mammalian, and insect cells.
Probiotics defined by United Nation’s Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) as live microorganisms, which, when administered in adequate amounts, confer a health benefit on the host. Though they have been in existence for many years,
Nutraceuticals can be labelled best as health supplements. This category of products can provide definite health benefits - including preventive. The nutraceuticals flourished in India from the 1990s, prior to which this segment was an
The Indian nutraceutical industry which is witnessing a growth of 18% is pressing for ingredient approval and simplified regulatory procedures.Industry and the regulator for that industry always have a complex relationship. They need each other.
Ingredients don’t drive value, yet some firms are stuck on selling generics and ingredients. Trusted brand names drive value. There may be 50-100 brands of Vitamin C with rosehips. And without a strong brand image,
Abbott has been operating in India since 1910 and is one of the leading healthcare companies in India. It provides consumers with diverse range of diagnostics, medical devices, nutritional products, and branded generic pharmaceuticals.Over the
“All I ask of food is that it doesn’t harm me,” said well-known English co- median Michael Palin in a comedy show Flying Circus. This shows that the food safety has univer- sal appeal. It
The eminent plant scientist Dr Sanjaya Rajaram, born in India and a citizen of Mexico, will be honoured as the 2014 World Food Prize Laureate for his scientific research that led to a prodigious increase
The industry and its regulator are many a times at loggerheads as their inter- ests clash. It is more so in industries that are sensitive from the point of view of people’s lives, like food