AKERN® is an Italian company founded in 1980, dedicated to research and development of bioimpedance medical devices and software for body composition analysis. Since over 40 years, AKERN® is a scientific reference in Body composition. Thanks to the high quality standards and scientific reliability, AKERN® technology delivers clinically significant results to support physicians and researchers in the assessment and treatment of acute and chronic diseases related to body composition alterations.In AKERN®, science and knowledge represent the engine that guides innovation and allows us to offer pivotal solutions in the systems based on bioimpedance techniques for customized body composition assessments.

Founded in 1977, Almarai Company is the world’s largest vertically integrated dairy company and the region’s largest food and beverage manufacturing and distribution company. Headquartered in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Almarai Company is ranked as the number one FMCG Brand in the MENA region and is market leader in all its categories across the GCC.

With more than 45 years of sustainable growth, Almarai Company continues to provide nutritious and healthy products to consumers of all ages with its growth stemming from its bedrock principle, “Quality you can trust”.

In addition to its high-quality dairy products, Almarai Company has diversified its product portfolio to include juices & beverages, bakery, poultry, infant formula, clinical nutrition formula, dates, fish, and seafood products under 21 brands, including: Almarai, L’usine, 7DAYS, ALYOUM, Nuralac, SureGrow Junior, SureNutri, Farm’s Select, One Bean, Almarai Refresh, Almira, Seama, Almara Pro, Premier Chef, and Almarai will soon launch its new brand in the red meat sector, to enhance and support food security in the Kingdom, in line with the goals of Saudi Vision 2030.

In 2023, Almarai Company reported net income of SAR 2.05 billion on sales of SAR 19.575 billion.

For more information, please visit the Almarai Company website: http://www.almarai.com/en

Established in France in 2003, Aminogram, certified ISO 13485:2016, has continuously innovated in designing and manufacturing medical devices for body composition. BIODY solution is a handheld device linked to a web platform, delivering precise results from data such as body fat mass, cell mass, muscle mass, body water, and body mineral content. It is trusted by over 3500 professionals, including Hospitals, Clinics,  Homecare, Sports federations. BIODY XPERT 3, our latest product, is a premium BIA Analyzer with 1000 frequencies, adaptable for all body types and weighs only 300 grams.

For over 130 years, Abbott has been committed to helping people live their best possible life through the power of health. Abbott’s broad portfolio of science-based nutrition products nourish at every stage of life. Our research is focused on specific health areas, such as the prevention and management of muscle mass loss through specialized nutrition.
The Abbott Nutrition Health Institute (ANHI) connects and empowers people through science-based nutrition resources to optimize health worldwide. ANHI presents the latest science by partnering with leading nutrition experts to provide education you can trust.

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ART MEDICAL has developed a proprietary, all-in-one solution for critical care nutrition management that reduces the time patients need to stay in the hospital by preventing feeding-related complications developed in the intensive care unit. ART’s smART+™ Platform is a patent-protected ecosystem of sensor-based tools, software, and algorithms. It has been clinically proven to detect and reduce ICU-acquired complications, including malnutrition, ventilator-associated pneumonia, and acute kidney injury. The result is improved patient outcomes and reduced length of stay.

Our recognised brands include the CORTRAK® 2 Enteral Access System, the CORGRIP® NG/NI Tube Retention System, the MIC-KEY® gastrostomy feeding tube, the ANCORIS® Tube Anchor Set and the CORFLO® Nasoenteric Feeding Tube.

Every day, millions of patients and caregivers rely on Baxter’s leading portfolio of critical care, nutrition, hospital, and surgical products. For more than 85 years, we’ve been operating at the critical intersection where innovations that save and sustain lives meet the healthcare providers that make it happen. With products, technologies, and therapies available in more than 100 countries, Baxter’s employees worldwide are now building upon the company’s rich heritage of medical breakthroughs to advance the next generation of transformative healthcare innovations. 

B. Braun is one of the world’s leading medical technology companies. With over 63,000 employees, the family-owned company is a true partner, developing smart solutions and setting standards to drive advancements in health care. In 2023, the B. Braun Group generated sales of € 8.7 billion.

BioparHom has developped and designed a professional medical device for analyzing body composition by biompedance. We provide our expertise to different markets : healthcare, high level sports and nutrition, we are leader in France. Our Z-Metrix is the only impedancemeter in the world that allows measurement in lying and standing position, ideal for consultation in office or at home. In just two seconds, reliable clues will help you get an optimal diagnosis of the nutritional status of your patients Measurements of fat mass, bone contents, water distribution and nutritional indicators are validated independently from each other, thanks to our non deductive technology. Do not hesitate to come to our booth to do your own measurement in 5 seconds! The whole team is waiting for you at our booth#13.

Bodystat is a speciality Body Composition Technology company, monitoring health for 34 years. We are absolutely committed to continuously innovating (from concept to commercialisation). Our market leading Bioimpedance Spectroscopy (BIS) platform, the Multiscan 5000 attests to this. Alleviating the burden of Disease Related Malnutrition (DRM) on country health systems, is our passion, focused on improved health outcomes and patient wellbeing. Our portable, handheld Analysers, offering convenience, are revolutionising the early detection, prevention and monitoring (of treatment success) of DRM. The Bodystat Advanced Nutritional Assessment parameters incorporate Fluid Management, Cellular Health, Muscle Mass Loss and Metabolic Health.

Cair LGL develops and manufactures a full range of medical devices, including custom solutions for infusion. Vertically integrated, Cair LGL controls all the processes and the quality of its products and offers quick time to market. The main goals of the company are: working on patients’ safety and reducing infections risks.

Carbery Group is an international dairy, flavours and nutritional ingredients. Carbery has extended both its product portfolio and global reach, becoming a leading innovator in whey protein ingredients.  Carbery’s nutrition business provides a comprehensive range of advanced whey proteins for the infant, sport, clinical nutrition, and mainstream food and beverage markets. The market-leading Optipep® whey protein hydrolysate range delivers scientifically supported health and performance benefits, and is suitable for use in a wide variety of applications. The new Optipep RTD range can deliver up to 18% protein in neutral pH Oral Nutrition Supplements (ONS) ideal for the Clinical sector.

Cardinal Health is a distributor of pharmaceuticals, a global manufacturer, and distributor of medical and laboratory products, and a provider of performance, and data solutions for healthcare facilities. With more than 50 years in business, operations in more than 30 countries and approximately 46,500 employees globally, Cardinal Health is essential to care ™.

Information about Cardinal Health is available on our website:

Established in 1980, COSMED is a world-renowned supplier of Metabolic and Body Composition testing solutions.
Q-NRG, the new generation of indirect calorimetry specifically intended for the measurement of Resting Energy Expenditure (REE) in patients who are mechanically ventilated or spontaneously breathing and for healthy subjects.
Our collaboration with world-class institutes in the field of clinical nutrition helped in developing an accurate metabolic system, easy to use and at the same time resolving all typical pitfalls of indirect calorimetry technology (no warm-up time, no gas calibrations, etc.).

DEKAs vitamins are based on a clinically tested delivery technology that enhances the absorption of fat-soluble vitamins (D,E,K,A) in case of fat malabsorption of hepatic (e.g. Cholestasis) , pancreatic (e.g. Pancreatic Insufficiency) or intestinal origin (e.g. Short Bowel Syndrome, Bariatric Surgery). DEKAs Essential and DEKAs Aqua-E contain only fat-soluble vitamin(s). DEKAs Plus contains fat- and water-soluble vitamins plus zinc and selenium. DEKAs is made in the USA by Callion Pharma (www.callionpharma.com). DEKAs is widely available in the Americas and Europe. DEKAs is an FSMP, to be taken under medical supervision. Contact us via info@dekasvitamins.com

We at Dutch Medical Food believe that every human being has the right to obtain high-quality healthcare. Nutrition plays an important role in this. Our vision of “Caring for All” is to make high-quality nutritional products accessible to all segments of the market, helping patients who are in need of medical nutrition. Dutch Medical Food is a Global Medical Nutrition company that is specialized in Research, Development, Manufacturing and Distribution of Conventional and Innovative Nutritional Products and Personalized and Sustainable Solutions.

Enteral Access Technologies (EAT) is focused on developing cutting edge enteral access devices.  DoubleCHEK™, EAT’s flagship product, combines CO2 and pH indicators into one, simple to use device, to help clinicians place feeding tubes at the bedside more safely and efficiently.  The benefits of implementing DoubleCHEK™ can include a reduction in; Time To Therapy (TTT), tube misplacement rate, and confirmatory x-rays.  Two key checks….one safe placement!

Fresenius Kabi is a global healthcare company that specializes in lifesaving medicines and technologies for infusion, transfusion and clinical nutrition. The company’s products and services are used to help care for critically and chronically ill patients. Fresenius Kabi’s product portfolio comprises a comprehensive range of I.V. generic drugs, infusion therapies and clinical nutrition products as well as the devices for administering these products. In the field of biosimilars, Fresenius Kabi focuses on autoimmune diseases and oncology.

GBUK Enteral specialises in the supply of enteral feeding devices. Our comprehensive range of products enables healthcare professionals to safely deliver nutrition to their patients being cared for both in hospital and in their own homes. GBUK Enteral is proud to be play a pivotal part in the global ISO ENFit roll-out. We take pride in our commitment to quality, clinical innovation and providing exceptional value.

Founded in 1851, the family-owned Swiss company Geistlich has become a global leader in the regeneration of bone, cartilage and tissue within regenerative dentistry, sports medicine and advanced wound care.In infectiology, Geistlich pioneered the development of taurolidine, the active ingredient in TauroSept®, a catheter-lock solution used to prevent and treat catheter-related bloodstream infections in parenteral nutrition, oncology, and haemodialysis.

Founded in 2004 and headquartered in Shenzhen, China, Hawk Medical is a leading company focusing on innovating and developing one-stop infusion system solutions such as enteral feeding pumps, infusion pumps, syringe pumps, infusion workstations, infusion therapy accessories, etc.Continuous investing in R&D allows Hawkmed to maintain cutting-edge technologies to provide accurate and efficient infusion solutions to the healthcare industry. Carrying the company’s mission of Advancing world health through innovation, Hawkmed pumps can be found in healthcare facilities in more than 50 countries such as the United States, Canada, Europe, Australia, New Zealand, the Middle East, Africa, Asia Pacific, etc.

Laboratoires Grand Fontaine is an international healthcare company specialized in investigating, developing and manufacturing medical nutrition products. Laboratoires Grand Fontaine offers a wide portfolio of medical nutrition solutions nourishing all life cycles and clinical situations. We are committed to delivering products with best ingredients and excellent tastes in order to support compliance and improve nutritional status of patients worldwide and by extension, their health and quality of life.

See the world’s most advanced Bioelectrical Impedance monitor for assessing Body Composition. Maltron will showcase the BioScan touch i8’s ability to accurately assess Sarcopenia, Malnutrition, and Loss of Muscle Mass. Including Fluid status of all the compartments both Cellular and Vascular. Malnutrition and the loss of muscle mass are associated with health risk. Diminishing the quality of life and making patients susceptible to infection with increased risk of mortality. The uniqueness of the BioScan provides you with the ability to quickly perform a comprehensive assessment within your entire patient group, adults and for the first time in the infants.

Medicina is a privately owned British Company that has been designing, developing and selling products in the Enteral Feeding and Stoma markets for over 20 years. Originally only sold in the UK, these products are now sold worldwide by a network of specialised distributors.

As leading innovators in the healthcare industry since 1986, Medtrition Inc. has developed innovative, best in class, clinically proven medical foods that repair and nourish the body to enhance quality of care while reducing cost, speed recovery and lessen reliance on pharmacological interventions.

Medtrition has continued our leadership in the medical foods industry with innovative and best in class products that focus on three dimensional, formed pureed foods, pressure ulcers and wound healing products, protein and calorie malnutrition options, constipation and diarrhea control, urinary tract infection control and the renal diet.

Micrel Medical Devices SA is a dynamic medical technology company designing, manufacturing and marketing drug delivery systems. The company offers a full range of ambulatory infusion pumps, related disposables, accessories and remote patient monitoring platform for a broad array of hospital and home-based patient treatments. Micrel is active in the areas of Pain Management and Analgesia, Parenteral Nutrition, Immunoglobulin Therapy, Parkinson’s disease, Thalassemia, Primary Pulmonary Hypertension (PPH) and other infusion therapies.

Nestlé Health Science is a leader in the science of nutrition, offering an extensive portfolio of science-based medical nutrition, consumer care products and pharmaceutical therapies. We know that nutrition can transform the lives of those who need extra support during short- or long-term medical challenges, and it can enhance the quality of life of those who are already healthy.  With an extensive research network providing the foundation for our products, we are committed to science-based nutritional solutions that can make a real difference for consumers, patients and caregivers.

At N·GENE, we offer advanced nutrigenomics services for health professionals, allowing them to customize plans and treatments based on their patients’ genetics. Our solution helps them interpret genetic tests through detailed reports and provides specialized training to identify predispositions to various conditions, including food intolerances and chronic diseases.

Additionally, our business model adapts to both in-person and online consultations, ensuring privacy and constant updating of genetic data.

NorthSea is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company focused on the development of structurally engineered fatty acids, or SEFAs. We are developing SEFAs as a novel class of drugs that are engineered to unlock the therapeutic potential of fatty acids by increasing organ-specificity and minimizing their natural propensity to be incorporated into complex lipids or broken down and used as an energy source. Our proprietary SEFAs have the therapeutic potential to simultaneously target multiple metabolic and inflammatory drivers of disease.

About Nutricia Building on 125 years of research, innovation, and care, Nutricia pioneers medical nutrition that enables life-changing and life-saving health outcomes, so that people can live their life to its fullest. With its nutritional solutions, Nutricia helps to address some of the world’s biggest health challenges including age-related conditions and chronic diseases, such as frailty, cancer, stroke, and early Alzheimer’s disease. Nutricia is part of Danone, a global leader with a unique health-focused portfolio in food and beverages.

A pioneer in scholarly, open access publishing, MDPI has supported academic communities since 1996. Based in Basel, Switzerland, MDPI has the mission to foster open scientific exchange in all forms, across all disciplines. Our 423 diverse and open access journals, including 414 peer-reviewed journals and 9 conference journals, are supported by more than 115,000 academic experts who share our mission, values, and commitment to providing high-quality service for our authors. We serve scholars from around the world to ensure the latest research is freely available and all content is distributed under a Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY).With additional offices in China, Barcelona (Spain), Belgrade and Novi Sad (Serbia), Manchester (UK), Tokyo (Japan), Cluj and Bucharest (Romania), Toronto (Canada), Kraków (Poland), Singapore (Singapore) and Bangkok (Thailand), MDPI has published the research of more than 330,000 individual authors and our journals receive more than 25 million monthly webpage views.

Filtration and membrane solutions serving healthcare professionals, medical device manufacturers and patients. As the medical industry works to lower costs, improve quality, and protect patients, we can help you comply with changing healthcare standards. Our experienced team can help you find the best solution to align with your healthcare industry’s specific requirements. We are here to help both large and small organizations scale operations up or down as needed.

L’azienda ha per oggetto sociale l’attività di commercio, tra le altre, di commercializzazione e vendita di prodotti farmaceutici etici, integratori, medical device ed alimenti destinati a fini medici speciali, ed   è interessato a sponsorizzare eventi finalizzati alla formazione ed all’aggiornamento professionale

(The company’s corporate purpose is the marketing and sale of ethical pharmaceutical products, supplements, medical devices and foodstuffs for special medical purposes, among others, and is interested in sponsoring events aimed at professional training and refresher courses)

SterileCare’s flagship solution is KiteLock™ 4%, a revolutionary product in the fight against complications arising from central venous access devices (CVADs).  It addresses the ‘triple threat’ in CVADs – a vicious cycle of clot formation, microbial colonization, and biofilm creation that leads to severe complications for patients.

Founded in 1923, TANITA is now one of the world’s leading suppliers of electronic precision scales and body composition analysers. By working closely with a global network of researchers and medical specialists, TANITA is leading the way in providing its products’ most advanced quality and measurement accuracy. Medical specialists rely on our medical products, with ISO 9001 certification, CE marking, NAWI and FDA approval.

In 2000, TauroPharm GmbH was founded as a German company specialising in medical devices with antimicrobial, antibiofilm and antiocclusive efficacy. Based on its innovative products, we aim to develop more effective ways to prevent catheter-associated complications – ranging from blood clotting to fatal infections. Throughout this process, improving the patient’s quality of life remains our top priority.Since there is an urgent need for our products, especially in light of the steadily increasing number of antibiotics-resistant pathogens, TauroLock is recommended in interdisciplinary national and international guidelines. All products have been investigated in independent scientific studies with excellent study results. ProductsTauroLock™TauroLock™-Hep100TauroLock™-Hep500TauroLock™-U25.000NutriLock™

Exclusively from Natural Alternatives International, Inc. (NAI), the CarnoSyn® Brands portfolio of patented ingredients presents TriBsyn™, a proprietary carnosine booster which incorporates the “world’s first paresthesia-free beta-alanine powder” scientifically proven to support general wellness and healthy aging. TriBsyn™ supports cognitive performance, enhances executive functioning and cognitive processing, improves muscle working capacity, increases muscle function and quality in older adults, and increases carnosine levels. TriBsyn™ delivers exceptional bioavailability, generating over four times that of conventional beta-alanine. The proprietary and patent-pending formulation effectively eliminates the common paresthesia sensation associated with efficacious dosages of beta-alanine, making TriBsyn™ suitable for a broader range of consumers. The increased efficiency allows for product formulations with significantly less beta-alanine, thereby improving formulation flexibility and allowing for reduced ingredient inputs to achieve efficacious dosing. TriBsyn™ contains the only beta-alanine approved by the FDA under NDI status (NDI report number 1103). Please visit with us at ESPEN booth #16.

Vesco Medical develops, manufactures, markets and distributes enteral (tube) feeding devices that deliver life sustaining nutrition to patients in Hospitals, Nursing Homes and those cared for at home.  Our vision is to become the leader in providing patients with enteral systems that deliver the highest value, quality and service.  Our mission is to revitalize reliable, affordable tube feeding delivery systems and establish a loyal customer base while discovering the next generation of devices that deliver value to the enteral customer. Customers worldwide are turning to Vesco to supply our reliable, safe, tube feeding products with ISO standard ENFit Connectors to meet their performance needs and value requirements.  Vesco Medical, Feeding Innovation.

Vivisol, a company within the SOL Group, has been active for over 35 years in homecare services and has established itself as one of the leading “Homecare Providers” in Europe. Thanks to the widespread presence of its territorial branches, Vivisol assists over 650,000 chronic and multi-chronic patients worldwide, elderly individuals, and numerous pediatric cases with complex and often rare conditions. Patients are assisted by VIVISOL on behalf of the healthcare systems of different countries, outside of the protected hospital environment. VIVISOL services cover many therapeutic areas, including Respiratory care, nursing, infusion therapies, advanced homecare, home dialysis, and assistive devices development, production, and distribution.

Vonco Products is a comprehensive medical device and packaging innovator and manufacturer that delivers the experience, innovation, technology, and creativity needed to take ideas from concept to commercialization – as quickly as possible. Vonco started as a pioneer in custom equipment and packaging. Now with over sixty years of experience, equipment requests have shifted to a comprehensive solution for designing and manufacturing customized medical devices, packaging, and components. The unparalleled ability to customize liquid tight bags of any desired shape or fitment using both supported and unsupported films gives Vonco an edge over peers in medical and consumer markets.

Wisepress.com is Europe’s leading conference bookseller. We have an extensive range of books and journals relevant to the themes of this conference available at our booth. We also have a comprehensive range of STM titles available on our online bookshop. Follow us on Twitter @WisepressBooks.

Zealand Pharma A/S (Nasdaq: ZEAL) (“Zealand”) is a biotechnology company focused on the discovery, design, and development of peptide-based therapeutics. This expertise has led to an R&D pipeline of innovative investigational candidates designed to address a broad range of disease areas including obesity, rare diseases, chronic inflammation, and type 1 diabetes. More than 10 drug candidates invented by Zealand have advanced into clinical development, of which two have reached the market. The company has development partnerships with a number of pharma companies as well as commercial partnerships for its marketed products. For more information about Zealand please visit our website: