Feed & Additive Magazine Issue 4 May 2021

NEWS 18 FEED & ADDITIVE MAGAZINE May 2021 I FF announced the launch of Nurica™ enzyme in Chi- na, offering a new way for dairy producers to create a premium product to fulfil consumer health needs while increasing profitabil- ity. Nurica™ is IFF’s latest inno- vation for the Chinese market and is marketed under the Danis- co® range of food ingredients that is now part of the IFF family. Consumers in China are in- creasingly looking for healthier offerings in their dairy products, including products with a high- er fiber content to help achieve daily fiber intake and to improve overall gut health and digestibili- ty. Using Nurica™, dairy produc- ers can adjust the sugar, fiber and lactose content of their flavored milk, ice cream, and fermented dairy applications et cetera. Nurica™ is an innovative enzy- matic solution that enables man- ufacturers to naturally produce dietary fibers in the form of Ga- lactoOligoSaccharides (GOS) in situ by transforming lactose that is present in dairy products. GOS have also been shown to increase populations of health-promoting species of gut bacteria, and as such has potential in prebiotic innova- tions and improving gut health. In application trials, the Nuri- ca™ lactase has shown no de- tectable impact on the acidifi- cation process, taste or texture. The outcome is delicious, stable, high-quality fermented dairy products, innovatively tailored to consumer health trends IFF introduces ground-breaking lactase Nurica™ in China Feed regulators, industry reps discuss critical issues at 14th IFRM T he 14th annual International Feed Regula- tors Meeting (IFRM) organized by the Inter- national Feed Industry Federation (IFIF) in cooper- ation with the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) brought together feed industry representatives and government officials from around the world in a virtual exchange to dis- cuss critical issues facing the feed sector with IFIF and the FAO. The virtual meeting was officially opened by Badi Besbes, Head Animal Production and Genetic Branch at FAO and Daniel Bercovici, IFIF Chair- man, who welcomed government officials and IFIF members representing over 80% of global com- pound feed production and reiterated their commit- ment to this longstanding partnership and agreed to continue to strengthen their work together to tackle the challenges facing the feed and food chain. Bes- Feed regulators and industry representatives from around the world discussed critical issues at the 14th International Feed Regulators Meeting (IFRM) organized by IFIF and FAO.