Better Dairy achieves Self-Affirmed GRAS status for lactopontin

USA – Better Dairy has achieved Self Affirmed GRAS (Generally Recognized as Safe) status for its precision-fermented lactopontin ingredient, marking a major step towards the commercialization of a new generation of nutrition products.

The company offers both the world’s first supply of precision-fermented lactopontin and the only commercially available source of lactopontin in the USA, giving brands and consumers the first opportunity to access the ingredient.

Lactopontin is a protein that occurs naturally in human and bovine milk and plays a key role in biological signaling pathways associated with tissue growth, repair, and renewal.

It works alongside the body’s own biological processes, creating a wide range of new opportunities for the development of products targeting healthy aging, gut health, immunity building, joint health, skin health and sports recovery.

Concurrently, it is highly synergistic with other, more established, functional ingredients such as collagen, lactoferrin and probiotics.

Rather than replace, it provides the additional opportunity to stack ingredients, capitalize on synergies and create differentiated products leveraging ingredients consumers already know and trust.

Although it occurs naturally in milk, its use as a functional ingredient in nutrition and supplements has historically not been possible.

According to the company, this is set to change now that it has developed a high-quality supply of lactopontin, with the Self GRAS determination establishing a safety basis and a cleared path to launch in the USA.

It follows the development of an extensive safety dossier covering the ingredient’s composition, manufacturing process, purity, specifications and safety.

Based on the evidence presented, an independent panel of qualified experts unanimously concluded that Better Dairy’s lactopontin is safe under its intended conditions of use.

Better Dairy is now working with customers to launch new products containing lactopontin in the coming months.

Jevan Nagarajah, Founder and CEO of Better Dairy, said: “We believe the next big opportunity is different, it’s about understanding how nutrition can help the body make better use of its own biology.

“Lactopontin represents that opportunity. We’re bringing a naturally occurring signaling protein into nutrition and supplements, with the potential to create an entirely new generation of functional products.”

Better Dairy will introduce Lactopontin to the nutrition industry at SupplySide Global in Las Vegas, (October 28–30).

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