India’s probiotic controversy: Industry questions methodology used by researchers who criticised label claims
A study that claims that commercial probiotics sold in India are not true to label claims has come under fire for the methodologies used.
The study, involving researchers from Apollo Children’s Hospital in Chennai, Madras Medical Mission, and NITTE University, was published on the journal
Cureus last month.
It claimed that there was
“very poor correlation” between the declared contents on the pack and lab values in viable cell count colonies, the genus and species strain identification, and contaminants were detected.
The paper has since attracted significant attention from the industry in India, especially for the test protocol used.