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Smith was speaking at this year's Probiota Asia summit in Singapore.

'Window of opportunity': DuPont highlights early-life benefits of microbiome manipulation across the life stages

The importance of human milk oligosaccharides (HMOs) and probiotic interventions for microbiota throughout all stages of life were emphasised at Probiota Asia 2018.

APAC consumer understanding that gut is the 'new super organ' growing

APAC consumer understanding is growing with regards to probiotics' wide array of benefits beyond gut health, and across all life stages, our Probiota Asia summit in Singapore has heard.

Regulatory review: Functional foods in Indonesia, fortification in India and elderly care products in China featured

Our monthly recap of the latest regulatory developments in APAC focuses on functional foods, fortification, aged care and infant formula.

From B2B to understanding the 'C': NZMP looks to consumer research to target key Asian growth markets

NZMP believes that thorough understanding of the end-consumer and full-spectrum service is the way to move forward in its key growth markets.

Nutrition and tech businesses must unite to ‘change society for the greater good’

Innovators can ‘change society for the greater good’ if they work together to get people healthy and active, a sports technology specialist says.

Researchers reaffirm the enduring relationship between gut and exercise

The link between gut bacteria and exercise continues to be an area of extreme interest with Finnish researchers publishing results that show the positive influence of endurance training on gut microbiota composition.

Nestlé gearing up to compete with a2 Milk with impending formula launch in Australia, NZ

Nestlé is launching a A2 beta-casein protein infant formula product in Australia and New Zealand within the next two months, competing directly with first-mover a2 Milk.