2024 Volume 20 Issue 2 Pages 2_16-2_20
The Coordinators Unit of the Agricultural, Forestry and Fisheries Products Export Promotion R&D Platform @ Kyushu/Okinawa1) is staffed by industry-academia collaboration coordinators, URAs and other research support personnel from universities participating in the platform, and is responsible for planning and operation. The coordinator unit decided to set “Food with Functional Claims” which are currently expanding in the domestic market, as a theme for information provision and matching opportunities that contribute to export promotion of agricultural products, and held two caravans during FY2023. While the participating companies expressed their expectations for the future promotion of exports of food with functional properties, many of them also expressed their opinions on the difficulty of appropriately securing scientific evidence for the functionality of food and of dealing with the different laws and regulations related to functional labeling in each country.
