Lille (France), Cambridge (Massachusetts - USA), November 4, 2010, Naturalpha, international scientific consulting, pre-clinical and clinical research company in Nutrition and Health, partner of Food and Pharmaceutical Industries, announces its participation to the only global event for the health and natural ingredients industries, showcasing the world’s most innovative Health and Nutrition products.
Since several years, Naturalpha assists ingredients manufacturers, dietary supplements makers and food industries along each step of their innovative product development in order to bring the scientific proof of the concerned ingredients. To complete its mission Naturalpha leans on three Business Units: Consulting, Pre-clinical laboratories and Clinical Trials.
- An added-value adviser
Gap analysis for Health Claim: Besides wording and ingredient typology awareness, building the scientific program in accordance with the targeted claim constitutes a crucial aspect of claim assessment. Naturalpha identifies the existing gaps between available science and EFSA claim requirements to make them match. Scientific analysis of health effect ingredients: To avoid EFSA health claim rejection, the study design and more precisely the clinical trials concerning a future product have to be as pertinent as possible and to rely on well-established scientific evidence. Naturalpha thus evaluates scientifically the health effect of food manufacturers ingredients or products (vegetal species, nutraceuticals, functional foods…). R&D and strategic planning: Defining the relevant and most efficient preclinical and clinical studies to be performed corroborating benefit or health effect is also a very important aspect of dossier building. Naturalpha advises its client in the whole trial design and performs scientific synthesis of health effect of ingredients (regulatory and bibliographical literature), scientific insights for consumers, product positioning analysis and biological target validation.
- Full service Clinical Research Organisation
In terms of methodology, the food industry tends to slide towards what is happening in the pharmaceutical field. Naturalpha is one of the few companies working on pre-clinical and clinical research in Nutrition and Health that can offer its clients a support from the stage of an “idea” of a product up to the health claim dossier. By performing clinical trials, Naturalpha meets the specific demands of its clients on the characterization, safety and efficacy of a product or even the identification of a biomarker. Thus, Naturalpha can by performing the clinical trials, proceed to the proof of concept and efficacy in humans of Nutrition products in various areas of expertise such as cardiovascular and metabolic diseases, Atherosclerosis, Diabetes, inflammation disorders, Mental health and many more. The company also works on tolerance and bioavailibility studies.
- Naturalpha’s Clinical Investigation Center in Nutrition (CNCN)
Inaugurated in the beginning of 2010, the clinical investigation center’s main function is to perform clinical trials in healthy volunteers for functional ingredients, food supplements and finished foods. Naturalpha is currently conducting various clinical studies on behalf of international clients, integrally, from the design step, up to the result delivery and the final clinical report. The company now leaning on an extensive and very informative database of volunteers, is among the only ones in Europe to provide such an independent, complete and relevant offer. The center is located within the Hospital Saint Vincent de Paul, a major hospital in the center of Lille (North of France). The team is composed of physicians, nurses, clinical technicians and has access to a wide expertise, equipments, services and facilities of the Hospital. Thanks to the CNCN, Naturalpha can now furthermore meet the growing needs of functional foods and ingredients producers and accompany them in their product development.
About Naturalpha
Naturalpha, specialized in consulting, scientific and clinical research in Nutrition and Health, offers functional ingredients, foodsupplements and finished food manufacturers solutions to build a relevant research strategy. Naturalpha supports its industrial partners in building the proof of “health effect” of their innovative products at every stage of their development by proposing scientific and regulatory intelligence, consulting, health claim dossier audit, preclinical and clinical studies. Spin-off of the biotechnology company Genfit, Naturalpha is located in Lille with an office in Cambridge (Massachusetts, USA). Naturalpha employs 25 specialists (physicians, engineers, research scientists and dieticians) and is a member of the Nutrition Health Longevity Competitivity Cluster. www.naturalpha.com
About Naturalpha’s Clinical Investigation Center in Nutrition (CNCN) The CNCN is located within the Hospital Saint Vincent de Paul, a major hospital in the center of Lille. The team is composed of physicians, nurses, clinical technicians and has access to a wide expertise, equipments, services and facilities of the Hospital.
The CNCN is designed in order to fully meet the needs of a clinical study in nutrition with healthy volunteers in facilities at the forefront of technology and in accordance with the high standards of safety and hygiene.
For more information on the CNCN: www.cncn.naturalpha.com
Contacts :
NATURALPHA Marleen VAN D’HUYNSLAGER Phone: (+33) 3 20 95 95 08 marleen.vandhuynslager@naturalpha.com
MILESTONES – PR Jacques-Olivier COSTA Phone : (+33) 1 75 44 87 42 jocosta@milestones.fr
