Abstract:
There are many manufacturers producing a wide range of food supplement brands in the market. Hence, these companies can potentially serve as a channel for pioneering a new product introduction in the market. In our study, we focus on the microencapsulation-technique research in which the technique can protect probiotics while delivering them to the targeted destination, humans colon. The study is conducted in the qualitative manner with the semi-structure interview method. There are a total of seven companies which are leading manufacturers and brand owners of probiotics products in Thailand. The result shows that Thailand is not ready to produce probiotic for the food industry yet because probiotics manufacturing requires high investment and bureaucratic registration process with the Thai government. As a result, there is no commercial probiotics manufacturing for food industry in Thailand and this kind of raw material must be imported. We propose that the target customer for this microencapsulation-technique research shall be suppliers outside of Thailand.