Ingredients used in the world clinical & medical nutrition market

Clinical nutrition is a vast domain including enteral and parenteral feeding, covering denutrition in intensive stress such as surgical trauma, burns, eating disorders, etc. Products are considered as pharmaceuticals and therefore manufacturing must follow strict conditions. It is an area of medicine that seeks to identify and treat medical disorders in humans that result from improper or inadequate diet, or from diseases that make the body unable to handle the nutrients delivered to it in the normal diet.

This report is divided in two parts; the first part includes a presentation of the clinical nutrition market and the main diseases where a nutritional support can be used as a clinical and medical route and the second part presents the interviews of food companies and the current and potential trends by market segment.
Besides it focus on clinical nutrition products related to medical health issues, the report contains market information related to its use in the pediatric segment as well as in home nutrition. The market section details the clinical nutrition segment’s data in different parts of the world and presents major companies’ shares based on a series of interviews.
The study offers an overview on the ingredients used and lists some of the products available on the market. It also profiles some of the leading manufacturers in Europe, Asia and America.
The legal status part reviews the different regulatory frameworks in Europe and North America.

The following segmentation details the types of information that will be presented in the report:

UBIC’s approach is based on in-depth interviews with food companies completed by a desk review.

MARKET SIZE

Quantification of the market is based on:

• Primary data coming from desk research;
• Interview with food companies and producers;
• Experts interviews;
• UBIC’s database.

MARKET EVALUATION

Desk search and experts interviews

• Data-bases (internal, Dialog, Datastar)
• Professional Organizations
• Market players’ annual and quarterly reports
• Specialized press
• Experts (consultants, associations, distributors, etc.)

MARKET EXPECTATIONS

UBIC has done a series of interviews towards the industrial clients. Those user interviews give an in-depth appreciation of their needs and expectations in terms of ingredients usage and purchase.

INTERVIEWS OF INDUSTRIAL USERS

Interviews are conducted at the R&D, supplying and marketing levels.