Market Flash

As record temperatures hit the South American agrifood leader, startups focus on novel ideas and technologies to drive sustainable change.

• Cellva Ingredients

The global demographic landscape is undergoing significant transformations, with aging populations becoming a prevalent trend across many countries.

• Aging Populations

The year 2023 witnessed a staggering increase in bankruptcies among biotechnology and pharmaceutical companies in the United States, with the situation being described as "widespread devastation."

• Bankruptcy

The "warm and cozy shade" is intended to evoke tactility, caring and community, a sense of sanctuary, subtle sensuality, and collaboration. At the same time, Peach Fuzz delivers the humanity of the mind, body and soul, per Pantone.

• Pantone's Color of the Year for 2024
• cosmetics market trend

Prestige beauty sales in Europe held up strongly in the first nine months of 2023 despite a difficult economic context and inflation, according to market research outfit Circana.

• Ingredient-Focused Trends
• Prestige Beauty
• European Cosmetics Market

China's API industry will continue to move towards a new stage of high-quality development, while enhancing domestic endogenous power and reliability while creating new international trade advantages. This article focuses on the analysis of global market

• API market
• API export
• China API industry

On December 3, 2023, Umicore, a recycling materials technology company headquartered in Belgium, held a groundbreaking ceremony for its new large-scale fuel cell catalyst factory in Changshu, Jiangsu Province.

• Umicore
• Fuel cell

Until early next year, California is considering the Proposition 12 products already in the pipeline. After that, the state plans to close its market to pork products from locations that don’t comply with California animal housing standards.

• EATA Act

Scheduled to be held from 20-22 March 2024 at the Shanghai World Expo Exhibition & Convention Center, PCHi 2024 promises to be a pivotal event in the industry, offering attendees an all-encompassing experience steeped in innovation and opportunity.

• PCHi 2024

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) has published a summary of the findings of a recent foresight technical meeting on new food sources and production systems, which took place November 13–17, 2023 in Rome, Italy.

• precision fermentation
• plant based food
• FAO

The International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), the cancer agency of the World Health Organization (WHO), has evaluated the carcinogenicity of two types of per- and polyfluoralkyl substances—PFOA and PFOS.

• perfluorooctanoic acid
• perfluorooctanesulfonic acid
• PFAS
• WHO

The patches are designed absorb fluid and help reduce the appearance of inflammation to shrink acne spots overnight, while also protecting the spots from outside bacteria.

• cosmetics companies

Recently, three kinds of pesticides (active ingredients), such as Pymetrozine, Flonicamid and Spirotetramat, were approved to be expanded to wolfberry in China for the control of aphids.

• Pymetrozine
• Flonicamid
• Spirotetramat

Value-led snacking, sustainability storytelling, and the importance of having a ‘star ingredient’: we asked consumer analysts and market experts at Fi Europe about the trends and innovations that are shaping the food industry.

• FI Europe 2023 Conference

In a bid to curb rates of obesity and other non-communicable disease, the Colombian government has introduced a tax on various ultra-processed food (UPF) and drink products.

• food health
• food&beverage

Codex Labs' kits include the Decode.MySkin DNA Test, which uses qPCR sequencing to assess skin oxidative stress, sensitivity, irritation, oiliness, pimples, pigmentation, sun exposure and general aging, as well as the Decode.MyHealth Vitamin DNA Test.

• qPCR sequencing

Hair products often contain ingredients that easily evaporate, so users may inhale some of these chemicals, potentially posing health repercussions.Now, researchers have studied emissions of these volatile organic compounds (VOCs), including siloxanes.

• Hair care
• VOC

The ingredient counteracts hypoxi-aging by stimulating and protecting cell respiration and energy production, according to Sederma.

• Cosmetics New Ingredients
• Cosmetics New Formulas

After the China's MMA (Methyl methacrylate) market entered the fourth quarter, the market opened weakly due to abundant post-holiday spot supply.

• MMA
• Methyl
• methacrylate

Himadri, a Mumbai-based Indian specialty chemical company, announced on December 6 that it will set up a lithium-ion battery module production plant with an estimated project cost of $576.2 million.

• Himadri
• Lithium iron phosphate