Product Type: Market Research Report
Published by: Informa Healthcare
Published: February 2007
Product Code: R3535-29Description Being neither food nor medicine but having properties of either of the two, nutraceuticals still fall into a grey area from a regulatory point of view yet in recent times has grown into a billion-dollar industry. Nutritional and dietary supplements - often named nutraceuticals as an amalgamation of the terms nutritional and pharmaceutical - have come a long way since a new trend in the care of companion animals in the 1990s.
Key coverage:- Understand the role of nutraceuticals and discover the key market drivers forcing growth
- Assess the world market with detailed breakdowns by species and segment
- Understand the variants in regional legislature and the affect of the Common Agricultural Policy.
- Evaluate the key issues in the global regulatory environment
- Examine the key commercial products driving growth including vitamins, minerals, amino acids, essential fatty acids, antioxidants, probiotics, enzymes EFAs and plant extracts and botanical remedies
- Review over 45 company profiles, their different approaches and varying successes
Market data:- Figures are provided for the global market for nutraceuticals for companion animals by region, species and product categories.
- Assess your competitors using the in depth analyses of 49 companies, including nutraceutical and herb specialists, animal nutrition companies and veterinary pharma companies.
Key issues:- What is a nutraceutical, what conditions can nutraceuticals treat and what are the benefits to the animal health sector
- The global, regulatory and professional status of nutraceuticals
- The variety of products that are available; what has been economically successful, as well as new products in development
- Discover what are the market drivers, key issues and market sizes
- The positive an negative impact that larger pharma and nutritional companies have made on the sector
- The global market for nutraceuticals for companion animals was estimated in excess of $1 billion in 2006, while it completed the year 2005 just below that mark.
Who should read this report?
Those responsible for the marketing, strategy or business development within:- Nutraceutical manufacturers
- Animal health R&D and drug discovery
- Distributors of nutraceutical products
- Generics companies
- Regulatory professionals would also be interested in this report given the grey area the nutraceuticals fall into and the varying global regulations.
Table of Contents - Introduction
- 1.1 Definitions
- 1.2 History
- 1.3 Nutraceuticals, feed additives and target animal species
- 1.4 Comparisons between nutraceuticals for human and animal use
- 2 The Regulation of Nutraceuticals
- 2.1 Key regulatory issues
- 2.2 US
- 2.3 EU
- 2.4 Australia
- 3 Nutraceutical Products
- 3.1 Vitamins
- 3.2 Minerals
- 3.3 Amino Acids
- 3.4 Essential Fatty Acids
- 3.5 Antioxidants
- 3.6 Chondroprotective agents
- 3.7 Probiotics
- 3.8 Enzymes
- 3.9 Plant extracts and botanical remedies
- 4 Market Drivers, Key Issues & Market Sizes
- 4.1 Key market drivers
- 4.2 Efficacy, safety and consumer confidence
- 4.3 The role of nutraceuticals
- 4.4 Therapeutic pet food diets
- 4.5 Opportunities and threats for the pharmaceutical industry
- 4.6 The world market for nutraceuticals for companion animals
- 5 Company profiles
- 5.1 Specialised nutraceutical companies
- 5.2 Manufacturers of herbal supplements
- 5.3 Animal nutrition companies
- 5.4 Veterinary pharmaceutical companies
- 6 References
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