Brazilian pharmaceutical distributor, Active Pharmaceutica, and product development supplier, BioActor, team up to promote and distribute Bioactor’s proprietary sports performance ingredient in Brazil. We spoke to BioActor’s CEO, Hans van der Saag to...
Personal health testing developer Wellmetrix and ingredient suppler Royal DSM announced a research collaboration to explore a diagnostic platform for personalized nutrition.
The nutrition and biosciences arm of DuPont is building its presence in Latin America through its plant-based and probiotics products. Daniel Borges, the company’s LATAM Sales and Industry Leader of Probiotics, Fibers and human milk oligosaccharides (HMO),...
Plant-based ingredient player Roquette has released its fiber consumer survey results in a bid to increase our understanding of the perceptions around fiber in our diets.
The path forward for the sale of CBD consumer products in Latin America may be constrained by high price points and the region's patchwork of regulations, but a few countries are setting the stage for a CBD retail market, according to Brightfield...
The meteoric rise in the popularity of ayahuasca, a potent brew from the Amazon, has not yet imperiled supplies of the botanical raw materials, according to a report from a noted herbal expert.
Illinois-based Van Drunen Farms has acquired a majority stake in Santiago, Chile-headquartered SouthAm Freeze Dry, allowing for further integration of South and Central America into the Van Drunen Farms/FutureCeuticals supply chain.
Biotech company, OptiBiotix Health, has signed a deal with dairy producer Agropur to manufacture and distribute its SlimBiome weight management ingredient innovation in key North American markets.
Atacama Bio Natural Products, an astaxanthin manufacturer based in Iquique, Chile, announced today that it will bring its NatAxtin ingredient to the North American market.
A new collagen player has entered the market with a process it says reimagines the production of this popular ingredient to arrive at a product with a cleaner sustainability story.
Working with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, DuPont is providing a “unique” probiotic strain to help treat sepsis in infants in Bangladesh, but the strain may also have commercial applications closer to home.
Daily consumption of Lactium – Ingredia’s alpha-s1 casein hydrolysate ingredient – may improve sleep quality and quantity, according to a new study from Korea.
The market for plant-based nutrition will move beyond single-source ingredients to synergistic combinations that strengthen the nutritional and sensorial profile of final products, says DuPont Nutrition & Biosciences.
Beneo has opened its first regional application center in South America to provide a more localized approach to business and grow its market presence further, its LATAM managing director says.
