| Nutricia North America Company History
Nutricia North America, a specialized medical nutrition company, is part of the Medical Nutrition Division of Groupe Danone, Paris.
Acknowledged as a market leader in infant and clinical nutrition, products range from infant formulas to specialized nutrition for babies with specific needs and for breastfeeding mothers. For people with specific nutritional requirements, Nutricia offers a complete range of enteral clinical and disease-specific nutritional products. Danone today controls interests in over 100 countries across the globe, delivering top quality baby food and clinical nutrition products including world renowned brands such as Cow & Gate, Milupa and Nutricia, including Neocate, Nutrilon and Omneo for babies and Nutrison, Fortimel, and Pre-Op for people requiring nutritional support.
Nutricia has a world famous research facility supported by over 150 PhDs dedicated to developing innovative products that allow its Baby Food and Medical Nutrition divisions to deliver products for a better, healthier life. Nutricia Research co-operates with more than 50 university research centers across the globe. The results are seen in the quality and effectiveness of our products, and Nutricia’s reputation continues to grow as an innovator in research and development, thereby meeting the demands of today’s medical community and consumers.
Nutricia North America, Inc. (formerly known as SHS North America) was established in 1983 with offices in Rockville, MD. The Nutricia product line consists of a wide variety of FDA and Health Canada approved products used in the management of inherited metabolic diseases, severe allergic and gastrointestinal disorders as well as other conditions requiring nutritional therapy.
Nutricia was the first to offer amino acid-based, hypoallergenic formulas (the Neocate product line) for the dietary management of cow milk protein allergy. The company has played a prominent role in educating the medical community through clinical trials and symposia on cow milk allergy and its associated enteropathies. Nutricia has over time diversified its product range by offering products specifically designed for intractable epilepsy—available under the brand name KetoCal—and innovative options for patients with phenylketonuria.
Nutricia North America is rapidly transitioning from a relatively small affiliate of a European based nutrition company to a rapidly growing and strategically significant part of a global nutritional group.
Groupe Danone enjoys leading positions on healthy food on four businesses: Listed on Euronext Paris, Groupe Danone is also ranked among the main index of social responsibility: Dow Jones Sustainability Index Stoxx and World, ASPI Eurozone and Ethibel Sustainability index.
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