Featuring the winners of the first NutraIngredients-Asia Awards to the latest developments at Blackmores and DuPont, here we reveal the top five stories trending across our social media channels right now.
The world’s biggest dairy co-operative will review its stake in Chinese formula milk company Beingmate after unveiling the first ever annual loss in its 17-year history.
The Infant Nutrition Council in New Zealand has applied to the NZ Commerce Commission for an extension of the restriction on infant formula advertising, to prevent marketing to parents of children under a year old.
Direct selling is on the rise in India, with analysts predicting the industry will reach a value of US$8.96bn (Rs645bn) and create almost 20 million jobs in the country by 2025.
Fractions of rice bran, a by-product from rice production, could be useful in the production of commercial probiotics – and may offer potential for synbiotic formulations, say researchers.
India firm Dr Reddys is seeing fast growth for its low GI Marie biscuits, with the product snatching 5% of market share since it was launched six months ago.
The FSSAI is once again urging manufacturers to fortify their staple foods, this time shifting its attention to India's dairy firms to encourage them to adopt voluntary milk fortification.
Algalif received the award for the Ingredient of the Year: Healthy Ageing at our first NutraIngredients-Asia awards in Singapore with its Astalif astaxanthin product.
The safety and efficacy of Sabinsa's proprietary blend of non-animal sourced enzymes for people with dyspepsia are supported by results of a new randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled study.
An ongoing multi-country study led by the Public Health Foundation of India is trying to determine if maternal DHA (docosahexaenoic acid) supplementation may have beneficial effects on neurodevelopment in the offspring during its first 1,000 days of life.
