Time has proved so far that all steps taken by Romvac SA in veterinary medicine and as new in the human medicine, were highly inspired, the result of actions initiated at the right time and the right ...place. This is why Romvac Company will continue in force, research aimed to obtain new medicinal products, bio-feed additives, phytotherapeutic substances, and also organic products for agriculture and animal husbandry.
European Union legislation on macroalgae products Lähteenmäki-Uutela, Anu; Rahikainen, Moona; Camarena-Gómez, María Teresa ...
Aquaculture international,
04/2021, Volume:
29, Issue:
2
Journal Article
Peer reviewed
Open access
Macroalgae-based products are increasing in demand also in Europe. In the European Union, each category of macroalgae-based products is regulated separately. We discuss EU legislation, including the ...law on medicinal products, foods including food supplements and food additives, feed and feed additives, cosmetics, packaging materials, fertilizers and biostimulants, as well as biofuels. Product safety and consumer protection are the priorities with any new products. Macroalgae products can be sold as traditional herbal medicines. The novel food regulation applies to macroalgae foods that have not previously been used as food, and organic macroalgae are a specific regulatory category. The maximum levels of heavy metals may be a barrier for macroalgae foods, feeds, and fertilizers. Getting health claims approved for foods based on macroalgae is demanding. In addition to the rules on products, the macroalgae business is strongly impacted by the elements of the general regulatory environment such as agricultural/aquacultural subsidies, maritime spatial planning and aquaculture licensing, public procurement criteria, tax schemes, and trade agreements.
Fungi produce various mixtures of gas-phase, carbon-based compounds called volatile organic compounds (VOCs) that due to their small size are able to diffuse through the atmosphere and soils. Despite ...some methodological and technological constraints, researchers have detected and characterized approximately 250 fungal VOCs, many of which have characteristic odors and are produced during primary and secondary metabolism. Fungal VOCs may contribute to a controversial medical diagnosis called “sick building syndrome” and may also be important in the success of some biocontrol species of Trichoderma. VOCs also play important signaling roles for fungi in their natural environments. Many ecological interactions are mediated by VOCs, including those between fungi and plants, arthropods, bacteria, and other fungi. The diverse functions of fungal VOCs can be developed for use in biotechnological applications for biofuel, biocontrol, and mycofumigation. Volatiles represent a new frontier in bioprospecting, and the study of these gas-phase compounds promises the discovery of new products for human exploitation and will generate new hypotheses in fundamental biology.
► Approximately 250 known volatile organic compounds (VOCs) are emitted by fungi. ► The toxicology of fungal VOCs warrants further investigation. ► Many interactions among and between fungi and other organisms are mediated by VOCs. ► Fungal VOCs have untapped potential for biotechnology.
The relationship between cooperation with competitors and product innovation performance was investigated along with the moderating effect of the innovating firm's technological capability and its ...alliances with universities. The hypothesis that cooperation with competitors has an inverted U-shaped relationship with product innovation performance was tested using data on new product introductions from 1499 Chinese firms. The results support the existence of a bell-shaped relationship between co-opetition and product innovation performance. Technological capability and alliances with universities were shown to weaken the relationship. The findings add significantly to the emerging literature on dynamic co-opetition.
•This study examines co-opetition (cooperation between competitors) and product innovation of emerging market firms.•The moderating effects of technological capability and alliances with universities were also investigated.•Data on 1499 Chinese firms across multiple industries were analyzed.•The results show an inverted U-shaped relationship between co-opetition and product innovation performance.•The bell-shaped relationship is weaker for firms with strong technological capabilities and alliances with universities.
Studies of the creative process identify two relevant sources of new ideas and products: Insight, a sudden, dreamlike, illuminating experience; and effort, deliberate, structured, hard work. With the ...aim of investigating the communication of the creative process, this research proposes that consumers hold associations between insight and arts, and between effort and sciences. These lay theories induce differential evaluations of new products: consumers evaluate more favorably artistic and scientific products presented as the outcome of insight or effort, respectively. The strength of the proposed effects, however, depends on the level of consumer expertise in the relevant product domain. We maintain that, as audience expertise increases, lay theories become less relevant and the effects of creative process narratives are attenuated. Five studies support the proposed conceptual framework.
•Complex dispositional attitudes influence the adoption of varied technologies.•Existence of technology clusters based on varying technological dispositions.•Marketing strategy may need to differ ...based on disparate technology dispositions.•Relationship between technology usage and consumers’ dispositional attitudes.
Using the Technology Adoption Propensity (TAP) index, a psychometric scale that measures four dimensions of consumers’ technological predispositions, we examine the relative influence of contributing (optimism and proficiency) and inhibiting (dependence and vulnerability) dispositional attitudes on the adoption of a varied range of 19 technologies. Our results indicate considerable differences in the relation between technology usage and the attitudes of respondents across the technologies. We show that individuals can be grouped into three technology clusters based on technological dispositions: high proficiency/low vulnerability; low proficiency & optimism/high vulnerability; high optimism/low vulnerability. Each cluster may indicate a need for a particular sales strategy given differences in consumer attitudes.
Facing growth pressures, firms attempt to target the large low-income consumer segment present in emerging markets. This multi-method study develops research insights regarding consumer-, retailer-, ...firm-, category- and country-level factors that enhance the acceptability, awareness, availability, and affordability of products that facilitate the low-income consumer adoption of and firms’ introduction of new products for low-income consumers. Study 1 uses a qualitative grounded-theory approach by interviewing company managers and low-income consumers in India and Chile. Study 2, empirically tests an integrated multi-level model of several category factors identified in Study 1, combined with country-level factors drawn from the literature, using a unique 12-year longitudinal panel dataset of new product introductions in 27 emerging market countries from Africa, Asia, Eastern Europe, and South America. The research identifies
consumer aspirations
,
region-based versioning
,
visible packaging
and the
product demonstrations
as critical motivating factors for adoption of products by low income consumers.
Consumers’ knowledge of the product category
, the
concentration of branded products
,
availability of global brands
, and the
presence of traditional retail stores
motivate firms to launch products for low income consumers in emerging markets.
This paper investigates the impact of e-waste regulation on new product introduction in a stylized model of the electronics industry. Manufacturers choose the development time and expenditure for ...each new version of a durable product, which together determine its quality. Consumers purchase the new product and dispose of the last-generation product, which becomes e-waste. The price of a new product strictly increases with its quality and consumers' rational expectation about the time until the next new product will be introduced. "Fee-upon-sale" types of e-waste regulation cause manufacturers to increase their equilibrium development time and expenditure, and thus the incremental quality for each new product. As new products are introduced (and disposed of) less frequently, the quantity of e-waste decreases and, even excluding the environmental benefits, social welfare may increase. Consumers pay a higher price for each new product because they anticipate using it for longer, which increases manufacturers' profits. Unfortunately, existing "fee-upon-sale" types of e-waste regulation fail to motivate manufacturers to design for recyclability. In contrast, "fee-upon-disposal" types of e-waste regulation such as individual extended producer responsibility motivate design for recyclability but, in competitive product categories, fail to reduce the frequency of new product introduction.
•Camu-camu seeds and peels as sources of bioactive products.•Solid residues from camu-camu pulp processing as new ingredients.•Integral valorization of camu-camu Myrciaria dubia (HBK) McVaugh fruit.
...This review aims to evaluate the production and processing chain of camu-camu (Myrciaria dubia), giving suggestions to maximize the valorization of raw materials, demonstrating new product possibilities from processing to distribution and highlighting the suggested contributions. It is clear that despite the camu-camu pulp has important properties, a large part of its raw material, considered waste (around 50%) and formed by important bioactive compounds, can give rise to new products, such as bioactive extracts to be used by pharmaceutical, chemical and food industries, ingredients for bakery products, dairy and several others sectors, which constitutes opportunities, in addition to contributing to the reduction of agro-industrial waste and the preservation of the environment.
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