How complex can be registering and selling non-Chinese food ingredients in China? please take a look here. In our opinion this complexity is not only related to a potential food or health hazard, but also used as a non-commercial way of protecting the local (krill in this case) industry, as Tharos has seen it first …
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Sustaining past reports issued by Tharos, GOED just reported on its visit to UBM’s Health Ingredients China in Shanghai the three most prominent ideas regarding the Chinese market: (1) Regulatory Uncertainty: Although everyone awaits the new fast-track approval system the Chinese government has announced, this does not happen yet, negatively impacting product development, but mostly hurting foreign …
GOED recently reported that two scientific studies with important significance were recently published. One of the studies was looking at the relationship between omega-3 status and coronary heart disease. The other, a study using real hospitalization costs of infant births. The first CHD paper was published in JAMA Internal Medicine positively correlating EPA, DPA and DHA consumption with …
Please come and join us to learn more about Tharos and the services it grants thanks to the interview GOED made to Tharos’ CEO Mr. Dimitri Sclabos K.
On May 18, Health Canada’s Food Directorate announced the approval of an EPA/DHA triglyceride lowering health claim for foods containing at least 0.5 g (1.000mg) of EPA+DHA. This monograph is intended to serve as a guide to the industry for the preparation of Product Licence Applications and labels for natural health product market authorization. It is …
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On its January 20 2016 publication, examiner.com published a list of answers to common questions about omega-3s that consumers have. Besides some well known questions as “Are omega-3s really beneficial to heart health?” and “Besides heart health, what are other benefits of EPA and DHA?”, two questions we recommend re-visiting “What’s the difference between omega-3s found …
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At least 500mg (0,5gr) per day according to GOED, and almost three times that much according to Russian health authorities, while for the rest of the countries that have ventured applying such regulation, it falls around 250mg, as recently reported by Nutraingredients.com. It has been so many years of debate about how much is enough, …
It seems so as recently published by CBCnews in Canada. Click here to read the article. Many aquaculture sectors are shifting towards more and more plant-based fish feed, which will reduce the (healthy marine-origin) omega-3 content in finished seafood products. The topic has recently appeared in some consumer articles, signaling a spike in the public’s interest, and doubtless …
Will the new farmed species feeding patterns impact negatively the food we eat? Read More »
Nutraingredients-usa.com reports on current krill oil suppliers looking ways to overcome dismal krill oil sales, one of them through concentrated krill oil versions, as well as some specific offerings targeting eye heath for example. Poor krill oil sales, in our opinion, is not only a matter of lack of novelty, a lowering investment in marketing …
Is it enough how the krill oil industry is reacting to the krill oil sales downturn? Read More »
As recently published by Seafoodsource.com, in the period 2011 – 2015, China spent CNY 50 billion (USD 7.5 billion, EUR 6.8 billion) on research projects in the fisheries sector in the five-year period from 2011 to 2015. This value includes a new “fisheries resource survey ship” and “special projects” that include the development of high-tech ships …
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