Joint health and healthy aging: interview with Bioiberica

Live from SupplySide Global 2025, Nutritional Outlook Associate Editor Erin McEvoy interviews Antonio Vendrell, marketing and communication director at Bioiberica, who discusses new research on Collavant n2 for joint health, products for healthy aging, and Bioiberica's refreshed brand purpose.

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Erin McEvoy: Hello, everyone, I’m here with Bioiberica with Antonio. Thank you for joining us. So could you please tell us more about the scientific evidence you’re presenting for joint health with Collavant n2?

Antionio Vendrell: Yes, well, we're very excited, because we are communicating results that we got and we made public two weeks ago about Collavant n2, our undenatured collagen type II. So these results are about showing through a biomarker how Collavant n2 is effective positively versus a placebo group. So there is a biomarker called CTX-II. And if this biomarker is present, then there is a degradation of the cartilage. So in the placebo group, we've got certain amount of this biomarker, and on the group that had Collavant n2, we've got another amount. So the difference is close to a 40 percentage point, showing that the healthy subjects that used Collavant had this 40 percentage points benefit of having less CTX-II, meaning that Collavant n2 preserves the cartilage in a higher way than if you don't take it.

McEvoy: All right, so there's a focus on healthy aging this year the show. Can you tell me more about how your portfolio addresses the needs of the healthy aging category?

Vendrell: Yes, we see a huge tendency around longevity, healthy aging. So, if you think about the person that would like to have this longevity, it is probably a multi functionality product. It's related to mobility, it's related to beauty, it's related to some other elements. So our portfolio, for example, has three branded ingredients that make a lot of sense to fit in longevity, and one is for mobility, and it's Collavant n2, another one is Mobilee, it's also for mobility. And then we've got Dermial, that is beauty from within. So these are ingredients that can fit very well into a nutraceutical that is for this type of targets.

McEvoy: Perfect, so Collavant n2 recently earned NutraStrong certification. Can you talk more about how this is important?

Vendrell: Yes, well, this is an organization that basically provides transparency and wants to be as clear as possible to consumers and to the industry. So we had a chance to share with the Collagen Stewardship Alliance at SGS Nutrasource how we produce and how we collaborate, Collavant n2. So we got this certification, and we are the first collagen in obtaining the certification. For us, it's important, because it's part of our product proposal, to be transparent, to be clear, and to ensure the quality in the products that we do.

McEvoy: So can you talk more about your refreshed brand purpose of ‘making the world a healthier and safer place’?

Vendrell: Yes, at Bioiberica are celebrating the 50th anniversary this year, and we are a life science company. We provide science to human, animals, and plants, and we see these as basically providing health solutions to any life being, because those are the three types of life beings that we have in this world, right? So the type of approach that we are having provides this type of health and at the same time, safety, because they are very correlated. Animals eat plants, people eat animals, and then we have the health for animals, health for plants, health for people. So we see this very much related, and that's we are approaching this as health and safe at the same time.

McEvoy: All right. Thank you.