More than 170 prominent stakeholders, researchers, practitioners and professionals from nutraceuticals, functional foods, dietary supplements and health foods industry from all over India and abroad attended the recently-held Nutrition Summit India 2016.
The event was a conglomeration of various ventures, innovative ideas and endeavouring minds set up on bringing a positive change into the nutrition market, according to a press release issued by Inventicon Business Intelligence, the organisers.
The summit highlighted the growth path of nutraceuticals market in the next five years with regard to regulations, challenges, reforms and areas where immediate government action is required. Detailed sessions focussed on botanical bioactives in preventive healthcare and nanotechnology with their application in nutritional products. Further, sessions centred on paediatric and geriatric nutrition, genomics & epigenomics of diabetes, Vitamin D deficiency and probiotics. It also touched upon topics such as preclinical strategies, nutritional analysis and certification of global standard for safe & effective nutraceuticals. Another topic of discussion was - What are the innovative business models for nutrition security and how to engage different stakeholders to build up the nutrition market landscape in India.
Among the participants, Dr Saurabh Arya, head, medical nutrition, Abbott, described the event, thus, “Good faculty and very interesting sessions.” Dr Barkha Gupta, head, medico regulatory, Cipla, stated, “First ever kind of conference which is so helpful and insightful.” Similar thoughts were shared by other participants. Dinesh Pandey, head, R&D, foods, Dabur India, said, “Good speakers and quality of topics. Sandeep Dubey, head, speciality nutrition division, British Biologicals, said, “Summit was precise and informative.” Dr Prakash Kondekar from AFSTI felt the summit was very informative.
The participants included Abbott, Advinus Therapeutics, Alkem Laboratories, Avesthagen, Venkys Nutrition, BASF India, Brenntag, Britannia, British Biologicals, CBC Corporation, Cipla, Dabur, E I DuPont, Eastern Condiments, EID Parry, Fuerst Day Lawson, Fuji Chemical, General Mills, Glaxo SmithKline Consumer, Glenmark Pharmaceuticals, Griffith Laboratories, Hershey, Hindustan Unilever, ICL Food Specialties, Jubilant Life Sciences, Kaleesuwari Refinery, Maize Products, Mega Lifesciences, Merck Limited, Modi Mundipharma, Natural Remedies, Nestle, Nuflower Foods & Nutrition
OmniActive Health Technologies, Parry Nutraceuticals, Pfizer Consumer Healthcare, Piramal Nutrition Solution, Plant Lipids, Sanofi India, Siro Clinpharm, Sun Pharmaceuticals, Tata Chemicals, Tata Global Beverages, Yakult Danone, and Zeon.
Selerant India was the leading partner. The event was co-partnered by DSM, NSF, Cole-Parmer, Frutarom, ACG Worldwide, Novozymes, Monarch Graphics, ILA Biomarine and Siro. It was supported by The Health Foods and Dietary Supplements Association (HADSA), AFSTI (Mumbai Chapter) and Indian Dietetic Association (IDA).
