DuPont Nutrition & Health and Hygiena, a Warburg Pincus portfolio company that specializes in rapid food safety and environmental sanitation testing, announced that Hygiena will acquire DuPont's global food safety diagnostics business

A new study published in EBioMedicine found that Bifidobacterium animalis ssp. lactis 420™—alone or in combination with the prebiotic fiber Litesse® Ultra™ Polydextrose—reduced body fat mass, trunk fat mass, waist circumference and energy intake compared to placebo in those participants who adhered to the study protocol over the six-month intervention.

These new DuPont™ Danisco® CHOOZIT® brand cheese cultures, CHOOZIT® ST 20 and CHOOZIT® PC FAST, are specifically designed to optimize production and consistently produce high-quality soft-ripened cheese.

As part of the Care4U™ range of food protection solutions, DuPont Nutrition & Health offers a range of clean label antimicrobials and antioxidants to provide additional hurdles to pathogen outgrowth, enhance spoilage control and allow for longer-lasting products in most refrigerated foods.

Titled “It’s What’s Inside,” the positioning cites all of the key attributes that make DuPont a global leader in specialty food ingredients and food protection, with a foundation in the strength of its people – nutrition and food scientists, consumer and market insight experts, global marketers and sustainability leaders, in addition to its broad product portfolio.