July 2016

How threatening is the Chinese involvement in the Antarctic krill fishery?

A recent Nutraingredients article reviewed the extent and implications of the Chinese Government support to its growing fishing fleet targeting the South Antarctic krill fishery (Euphausia superba, Dana). Their focus being primarily food-grade dried krill meals, are used inland (in China) to solvent-extract krill oils mainly for the internal market which still shows a healthy 2-digit …

How threatening is the Chinese involvement in the Antarctic krill fishery? Read More »

Krill Oils in China

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 …

Krill Oils in China Read More »

GOED reports some goods news on Omega3’s

  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 …

GOED reports some goods news on Omega3’s Read More »