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A Survey of Commercially Available Probiotics

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Probiotics, Prebiotics, Synbiotics, and Postbiotics

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Globally, several nutraceuticals and pharmaceutical producers have delved into the market of probiotic formulations. It is widely available to customers as pills, functional foods, and dietary supplements. Commercial formulations licensed as medicinal products are subject to strict satisfactory controls, although devices classified as dietary supplements and purpose additives are usually subject to much less stringent guidelines. The system must contain enough quantity of indicated microorganisms and unfastened from any contaminants to exert beneficial consequences on host fitness till product expiry stated on labels. The suggested studies indicate that many probiotic formulations do not correspond to the label claims marking the requirement for more stringent first-class controls by means of manufacturers. The present evaluation discusses reports mentioning the big wide variety of discrepancies inside the microbial composition of many probiotic formulations available inside the worldwide market. Their compositional analysis in terms of excellent, identity of the microorganisms, overall possible depend, purity (any contaminants) and to validate the label claims. The steps had been mentioned which need to be taken with the aid of regulatory agencies in conjunction with the manufacturers to cope with the problems and to triumph over the demanding situations within the probiotic formulations.

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We gratefully acknowledge BIG-BIRAC and BioNEST-UDSC India, for assistance with the laboratory space, instrumentation, and funding.

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  1. Probiotics Lab, BIG-BIRAC, BioNEST-UDSC, University of Delhi, New Delhi, India

    Swati Misra

  2. Department of Biotechnology, Tropilite Foods Pvt. Ltd., Gwalior, India

    Shailendra Raghuwanshi

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Misra, S., Raghuwanshi, S. (2023). A Survey of Commercially Available Probiotics. In: Kothari, V., Kumar, P., Ray, S. (eds) Probiotics, Prebiotics, Synbiotics, and Postbiotics. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-99-1463-0_24

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