Despite the growing interest in postbiotics across academia and industry, scientists have not aligned on how to address the complexity of quantifying postbiotic products.
A group of 15 leading scientists from academia and industry have now published a paper that provides practical guidance on postbiotic quantification that can be implemented worldwide. The paper, called “Postbiotics: a perspective on their quantification”, appeared in Frontiers in Nutrition and originated from a 2024 expert working group held by ISAPP, the International Scientific Association for Probiotics and Prebiotics.
You can read here the introduction of the paper:
A “postbiotic” is a preparation of inanimate microorganisms and/or their components that confers a health benefit on the host. To encourage collaborative problem solving to address the issues related to the characterization and quantification of
postbiotics, a working group of academic and industry scientists involved in research or commercial production of postbiotics convened at the International Scientific Association for Probiotics and Prebiotics (ISAPP) 2024 meeting. This paper reports the outcomes of that discussion.
