Across the Nutra-Verse: Top news from around the world (April 29)

29-Apr-2019 - Last updated on 29-Apr-2019 at 13:35 GMT

It’s a global industry and there’s a lot happening. We know it’s not always easy keeping up with everything that’s happening around the world. The answer? Our weekly round-up of key news from across the globe.

USA

DSM partners with personalized supplement player Panaceutics

North Carolina-based Panaceutics, maker of personalized nutritional gels and purees, will expand its dietary supplements efforts after announcing a partnership with ingredients giant DSM.

Panaceutics goal is to make it simpler for both brands and consumers to personalize their supplements by mixing what would have been five different pills into one packet of puree.

DSM will not only be the exclusive supplier of the micronutrients used in Panaceutics’ products (other ingredients, such as fruit puree, will be sourced elsewhere), but Panaceutics will also enjoy its global partner’s capabilities in nutritional ingredient selection, application, science, and especially B2B marketing to different brands and channels, Hugh Welsh, general counsel, secretary, and president at DSM North America, told NutraIngredients-USA.

“The unique feature of the Panacuetics solution is the ability to produce fully individualized formulations covering a single person’s specific nutrient needs, in a scalable and cost-effective manner,” added Welsh.

Europe

EFSA sets safe level for chia oil in supplements

The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) has set a two grams per day (g/day) maximum level for chia oil from Salvia hispanica for use in food supplements.

The recent ruling also rejected concerns over contaminant formation.

“The Panel notes that no other hazard causing safety concerns has been identified on the basis of the available information on composition, stability, history of consumption, toxicological and human data regarding whole and ground chia seeds,” EFSA conclude.

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Asia

China: Glanbia to focus on lifestyle nutrition on back of sports nutrition success

Glanbia Nutritionals focus on providing protein products for both the sports nutrition and general lifestyle segments in China, the company’s VP of commercial (APAC) told NutraIngredients-Asia.

Over the past three years the company has been working with a sports accessories retail chain which has about 300 stores in China in developing sports nutrition products, such as protein beverages, nutritional bars, and isotonic drinks, David Townsend told our Asia edition recently at Food Ingredients China 2019.

“We are well known in whey protein and sports nutrition, less known in lifestyle nutrition and this is what we are working towards to in China and the broader APAC as consumers change their lifestyle habits and there are a lot of people getting into sports,” said Townsend.