FUTURE TRENDSMilk is increasingly c

FUTURE TRENDS
Milk is increasingly considered as a basket of
pharma- and nutraceticals as more clinical evidence
emerges on the therapeutic benefits of milk and
milk-derived ingredients. As consumers are becoming
more aware of health and benefits from dairy
foods in the prevention of contemporary diseases, the
global market for dairy foods and nutraceuticals will
increasingly grow worldwide. Hence, the compositional
analysis, and development of new ingredients
and formulations will become increasingly important.
New technique will need to be developed to
extract the bioactive and therapeutic components in
milk, process them without affecting their bioactivity,
protect them and deliver them in active and or
viable forms to the consumer. As new bioactive and
therapeutic dairy-derived ingredients are developed
and tested for efficacy, new and improved analytical
techniques will need to be developed. The quality
and safety issues of any new dairy-based ingredient
will need to be closely monitored. Bioterrorism
is another area of concern for the dairy processing