9th NUTRA INDIA SUMMIT 2014 The 9th edition of India’s Flagship Event for the Nutrition, Nutraceuticals, Functional Foods and Dietary Supplements Industry was held from March 12 to 14, 2014 at Hotel, The Lalit Ashok, Bangalore. The summit was organized by MM Activ Sci-Tech Communications and International Society for Nutraceuticals, Nutritionals and Naturals (ISNNaN) which is supported by leading Associations like IUFoST, IFT, IUNS, EHEDG, IDA and ABLE. "New Sutra for Nutra for Emerging Global Economics" was the focal theme of 9th Nutra India Summit. The Summit featured, an International Conference that focused on today’s trends and tomorrow’s opportunities, delivered by experts from across the globe, a special Doctors & Nutritionists Forum, CEO Summit, Awards Function, Interactive Poster Session - 'Walkway of Discovery', the Partnering InterlinX platform and 'NuFFooDS', The Health & Food Expo, a B2B & B2C Platform for the Nutra Sector.

Inaugural Function

The Key Dignitaries at the Inaugural included Shri Dinesh Gundu Rao, Hon’ble Minister of State for Food and Civil Supplies and Consumer Affairs Department, Govt. of Karnataka, in the presence of Prof. M.S. Swaminathan, Founder Chairman and Chief Mentor, UNESCO Chair in Ecotechnology, M S Swaminathan Research Foundation and Guests of Honour Dr. G. Thyagarajan, FRSC, Former Director, CSIR Laboratories, Former Scientific Secretary, COSTED; Dr. Pingfan Rao, President, International Union of Food Science & Technology (IUFoST), Vice President, Chinese Institute of Food Science & Technology, China, Professor & Director, Institute of Biotechnology, Fuzhou University, Fujian, China; Dr. Rickey Yada, President Elect, International Union of Food Science & Technology (IUFoST), Professor, Canada Research Chair in Food Protein Structure, Scientific Director, Advanced Foods and Materials Canada (AFM Canada), Department of Food Science, University of Guelph, Ontario, Canada and Dr. Judith Meech, Secretary General International Union of Food Science and Technology (IUFoST), Canada, along with Dr. V. Prakash, FRSC, Distinguished Scientist of CSIR – India, Vice President, International Union of Nutritional Science (IUNS), Hon. Director of R&D and Innovation at JSS MVP, Mysore, Chairman, 9th Nutra India Summit and Shri Jagdish Patankar, Organizing Secretary, Nutra India Summit; Managing Director, MM Activ Sci-Tech Communications, Publisher, NuFFooDS Spectrum and Shri Ravi Boratkar, Jt. Managing Director, MM Activ Sci-Tech Communications.

The Event Sponsor was Herbalife International India Pvt. Ltd.

KEY HIGHLIGHTS

Presentation of Life Time Achievement Award to Prof. M.S. Swaminathan, Founder Chairman and Chief Mentor, UNESCO Chair in Ecotechnology, MSSRF

Release of Event Compendium ‘NUTRA Sector Overview’ by

NuFFooDS Spectrum Distinguished Lecture by

Prof. M.S. Swaminathan Inaugural Address by

Shri Dinesh Gundu Rao Hon’ble Minister of State for Food and Civil Supplies & Consumer Affairs Department, Govt. of Karnataka

Morning Mantra Keynote Sessions by

Dr. G. Thyagarajan; Dr. V. Prakash; Dr. B. Suresh, Dr. Pingfan Rao Mr. Karel Mager & Dr. Rickey Yada

Presence of Dr. Ajit Kumar, IAS

Vice Chancellor, National Institute of Food Technology Entrepreneurship & Management, (NIFTEM) as Guest of Honour at the Awards Function.

Participation Analysis

Category Count

Countries 15

Exhibitors 50

Speakers 52

Organizations 107

Delegates 500

Business Visitors 2000

INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE India is emerging as a hub for Domestic & International manufactures of Nutraceuticals, Health & Food Products. With increased need and awareness in Nutra products, India is expected to be the largest market for Fast Moving Health Goods (FMHG) in the near future. The Summit offered an ideal platform for Exporters, Importers, Sourcing companies, Production and Purchase Professionals as well as Doctors, Nutritionists and R&D Heads. The International Conference focused on today’s trends and tomorrow’s opportunities. Speakers from across the globe discussed topics such as product innovation in functional foods, dietary supplements & ingredients, business growth in ingredients for Nutraceuticals & dietary supplement, probiotics, enzymes & nutrigenomics, marketing & brand building strategies addressing consumers, global trends in 3N’s - Nutraceuticals, Nutritionals & Naturals and Food Safety Regulations impacting Indian Industry. The Keynote Speakers at 9th Nutra India Summit 2014 included Dr. G. Thyagarajan, FRSC, Former Director, CSIR Laboratories; Former Scientific Secretary, COSTED; Dr. V. Prakash, FRSC, Distinguished Scientist of CSIR - India, Vice President, International Union of Nutritional Science (IUNS), Hon. Director of R&D and Innovation at JSS MVP, Mysore, Chairman, 9th Nutra India Summit; Dr. B. Suresh, Vice Chancellor, JSS University, Mysore & President, Pharmacy Council of India, New Delhi; Dr. Pingfan Rao, President, International Union of Food Science & Technology (IUFoST); Vice President, Chinese Institute of Food Science and Technology, China; Professor & Director, Institute of Biotechnology, Fuzhou University, China; Mr. Karel Mager, Quality Management & Industrialisation Specialist Givaudan, The Netherlands; Dr. Rickey Yada, President Elect, International Union of Food Science & Technology (IUFoST), Professor, Canada Research Chair in Food Protein Structure, Scientific Director, Advanced Foods and Materials Canada (AFM Canada), Department of Food Science, University of Guelph, Ontario, Canada.

CEO SUMMIT

The CEO Summit - an exclusive gathering of CEOs, R&D Heads, Policy Makers, Venture Capitalists, Investment Bankers held an interesting panel discussion on "What is the New Sutra for Nutra in the Emerging Global Economy". The CEO Summit was Chaired by Dr. V. Prakash, FRSC - Distinguished Scientist of CSIR - India, Vice President, International Union of Nutritional Science (IUNS), Hon. Director of R&D and Innovation at JSS MVP, Mysore, Chairman, 9th Nutra India Summit and the Panelists were Dr. G. Thyagarajan, FRSC - Former Director, CSIR Laboratories; Former Scientific Secretary, COSTED, Dr. Lekh R. Juneja - Representative Director & Executive Vice President, Taiyo Kagaku Co., Ltd., Japan, Mr. Rajesh Kumar - Director & CEO, SAMI Direct, Dr. V. G. Dhanakumar - Director, IIPM, Bangalore, Dr. J.L.N. Sastry - Head - Healthcare Research, Dabur Research & Development Center, Dabur India Ltd. And Mr. Sarath Naru - Managing Partner, Ventureast, Dr. Nigel Sunley - Owner, Sunley Consulting, South Africa and Dr. P.M. Murali, President ABLE and MD & CEO, Evolva Biotech India. The three questions to the Panelists were:

How to take nutra global How to ensure safety of the products How to accomplish a Market growth of the product

All panelists involved in thought provoking discussions to throw light on the challenges ahead, uncover potential opportunities and discussed the means to achieve exponential growth for the NuFFooDS Sector.

NuFFooDS EXPO 'NuFFooDS', Health & Food Expo, is a B2B & B2C platform for the Nutra Sector. NuFFooDS Expo created opportunities for Brand leaders as well as Small and Medium Scale Enterprises to showcase products, technologies & Services and will be an ideal platform for new product launches. The Expo witnessed 50 Exhibitors including Nutritional, Nutraceuticals, Functional Foods, Dietary Supplements, Ingredients companies.

NuFFooDS Expo turned out to be an excellent platform to showcase products & services and innovations providing ample opportunity to gain ultimate business exposure within the NuFFooDS Sector. This interactive arm of the Summit offered an appropriate platform for new business tie-ups & collaborations and attraction of investments. The Expo attracted about 2000 Business Visitors.

International Participation

The Summit saw participation from 15 countries like USA, Canada, South Africa, UK, Netherlands, Spain, Germany, Japan, China, Singapore, Vietnam, Thailand, Taiwan etc.

AWARDS FUNCTION

These awards were given to the Individuals and Industry for excellence in the field of Nutraceuticals, Nutritionals and Naturals. There was also a Cultural Program by EARTHA showcasing various Colours of India.

NUTRA Excellence Awards

Award Title Conferred to For

NUTRA Excellence Award

Indian Dietetic Association (IDA)

For the indepth interaction with Academia & Industry and for its interfacing in the subject area of Nutrition with application of Nutraceuticals and Nutritionals for a Healthy Society.

NUTRA Industry Personality Award

Dr. Lekh Juneja Executive Vice President, Taiyo Kagaku Co., Ltd., Japan

For the outstanding contribution in promoting the sectors of Nutraceuticals, Functional & Speciality Foods and Dietary Supplements reaching out for a Healthy Society.

NUTRA Scientific Award

Prof. Angel Gil Institute of Nutrition and Food Technology, Granada, Spain and President, Iberomerican Nutrition Foundation

For the outstanding scientific contribution in the sectors of Nutraceuticals, Nutritionals and basic work on Nutrition Connecting Research to Global Market place.

NUTRA Industry Recognition Award

Naturex For the outstanding contribution to Industry growth in the sector of Nutraceuticals & Nutritionals and Dietary Supplements.

NUTRA Excellence Award

Dr. G. Thyagarajan former Secretary COSTED and former Director, CSIR Laboratories

For the lifetime and outstanding contribution in the area of Pharmaceuticals leading to Health and Wellness of Food & Food Safety connecting Research to Global Market place through his policy frameworks.

Exhibitor Awards

Interactive & Best Managed Design & Innovation

Sami Direct Marketing Pvt. Ltd.

Nichi-In Bio Sciences Pvt. Ltd.

Kibow Biotech Inc.

Coffee Board of India

DSM Nutrition

Ace International LLP

Special Jury Recognition

Council of Scientific & Industrial

Research (CSIR) Bio-Gen Extracts Pvt. Ltd.

POSTER SESSION

Poster Session "Walkway of Discovery" organised during the 9th Nutra India Summit provided the ideal platform for students of nutrition as well as researchers to showcase their innovative concepts and present them before the best minds in the Nutraceutical sector.

Poster Awardees

Name & Institution Title of Paper

Aswathy Dev Kerala Agricultural University

Ginger Somaclones of Nutraceutical Value

Bhavya S.N. University of Mysore

Effect of Storage Duration and in Vitro Digestion on Retention of Antioxidant Properties in Foxtail Millet (Setaria Italica) Based Soup Mix

Charanjit Kaur Indian Agriculture Research Institute

Carotene rich concentrate from red Capsicum: An innovative functional ingredient for nutraceutical industry

Neha Saini Indian Agriculture Research Institute

Extrusion conditions affect the physical, antioxidant properties, glycaemic index and sensory properties of sorghum, barley and horse-gram based snack

Pritam Kalia Indian Agricultural Research Institute

Breeding Nutra-Rich Vegetable Varieties for Sustaining Emerging Nutraceutical Industry

M.S. Radhika National Institute of Nutrition

Acceptability of milk based ready to eat supplementary foods by 12-36 month old ICDS children in the Ranga Reddy District of AP

R. Saravanan Tata Chemicals Ltd., Innovation Centre

Process for the production of High Pure Galacto-Oligosaccharides (GOS)

Shamshad Begum S. University of Agricultural Sciences, Bangalore

Byproduct Utilisation of Watermelon for Good Health, Nutrition and Wellbeing - An option for Valueaddition and Commercialization

B.N. Shyamala University of Mysore

Retention of Antioxidant Components and Antioxidant activity in processed and stored Cabbage (Brassica Oleracea)

Vasantha Esther Rani Fatima College

Standardization and Supplementation of Functional Foods Incorporated Chikkis for Healthy HIV Positive adults in Madurai District

InterlinX - B2B Partnering Tool

The InterlinX - B2B Partnering Tool proved to be a powerful & sophisticated internet platform & a match making tool for participants to maximise partnering opportunities with the NuFFooDS Sector for Business.

TESTIMONIALS

Testimonials from Key Industry and Scientific Fraternity at the Summit

Nutra India Summit has been an exclusive and one of its kind for the Nutra sector in India. This summit is interesting because of the profile and number of people we get to meet in Three days from diverse fields. People who are in competitors to us, with different approaches to learn from them and understand their Industry requirements for us to cater them. It is right place and platform to achieve all these objectives. – Dr. Priti Vaidyanathan, Senior Manager, Technical Services, Sami Labs Ltd. Being the first Summit, I am impressed with the Talent in the Group and was also a learning experience for us. Since the challenges faced are same by the Nutra Industry are same, so I look suggest to the fraternity to work as a global team. It is important to work along with the regulators and people in the system to bring in right harmonization for all category of products which come under the regulatory framework. - Dr. Jatinder Rana, Senior Principal Research Scientist, Analytical Sciences, Amway R&D USA Very impressed with the Nutra India Summit, the way it is conducted, variety of people in the Summit. It is very refreshing to hear interactions happening on Food as Medicine. From a straight Food Science Conference, it is quite a different perspective to hear both Nutrition and Food Science. Also interesting to know on the various initiatives and New products that are been proposed along with the long history of 5000 years of evidence from products in India been consumed. There is a tremendous potential in India for the World to know and I shall recommend this to our associate country and companies to be a part of this Summit in the coming editions. - Ms. Anne Goldman, Member of IUFoST Governing Council, Vice President of Consumer Research, ACCE International, Canada It has been a fascinating Conference. I knew that there is a capacity for Nutraceuticals in India but came to know only by attending this Summit. The Summit has top of the people addressing here and with so much of work going in this field and especially in the Hi-tech city of Bangalore. The Variety and Diversity of people Involved in this Industry in India is huge. Regulations in India are progressively coming in and that will be a challenge to bring in greater degree of Substantiation and Compliance on the Industry. This should bring in right innovation and put things together to beneficial for the end user. - Mr. Nigel Sunley, Member of IUFoST Governing Council, Sunley Consulting - Technical Consultancy to the Food Industry, South Africa This is my first time in India and First time at the Nutra Summit, very nice Summit for this sector. Over the last three days I could meet many Scientists and Doctors from India as well as coming from across the globe. Nutra Summit is great platform for BASF to interact with Medical Fraternity, Nutrition fraternity with Industry and Academia. - Dr. David Cai, Senior Regional Manager, Scientific Marketing, Regulatory and External Affairs, BASF (Asia), Human Nutrition (ENH), Nutrition and Health, China Due to changing lifestyle and bad Food habits Nutritional Deficiency is affecting everyone in society. Nutraceuticals which now are available with various fortifications are needed to get rid of this. Also In India, the deficiency of Supply of chain of qualified Human resource personnel’s to about 90%. There are not many courses that teach with focus on Nutraceutical Industry or Nutraceutical Science. It needs support from both Government as facilitator and Industry as active component to develop the right content for these courses. The theme of the 9th Nutra India Summit International Conference is right and need of the hour, this sector needs lot of resource pulling and support from government and Industry to make it work. Very well organized Summit. – Dr. Ajit Kumar, IAS, Vice Chancellor, National Institute of Food Technology Entrepreneurship and Management (NIFTEM)

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