Vitamin B6 (Pyridoxine)
is a soluble vitamin type. Apart from pyridoxine vitamin B6 has two more natural forms such as pyridoxamine, and pyridoxal, which are majorly found in food contents. Pyridoxine which is available naturally and also developed in laboratories is mainly found in foods namely cereals, vegetables, beans, eggs, meat, and liver. This vitamin is significantly used in anemia to prevent or treat the low content of pyridoxine.
The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA), which assists policy makers with respect to nutrition and safety food, has concluded intake of vitamin B6 is beneficiary to various day in day out diet such as glycogen metabolism, proper functioning of nervous system, red blood cell formation, normal functioning of the immune system, the directive to all the hormonal activities. The authentication of these benefits will uplift more usage of vitamin B6 in near future in various forms of drugs and food supplementary. The Global Vitamin B6 (Pyridoxine) Market
has been broadly classified into three segments such as drug type, use cases and geographical analysis. Vitamin B6 is used in various forms such as capsules, syrup, tablets, cream, liquid and injection and other. These drug types vary with respect to the need for intake of vitamin B6. The vitamin B6 (pyridoxine) is also divided by uses cases of these drugs such as Anaemia, Muscular Cramps, Menopausal depression, Insomnia, Fatigue, Water retention, Premenstrual syndrome and others. Based on the geography, the report has been segmented into North America, Europe, APAC, and RoW.
According to U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) About 28 percent to 36 percent of the normal population uses food supplements that contains vitamin B6 (pyridoxine). Adults aged 51 years or older and children younger than 9 are important target segment that is added to the segment consuming supplements containing vitamin B6. North America is expected to lead the vitamin B6 (Pyridoxine) market in 2015 and continue the dominance through the forecast period. While the growing economies and increasing developments in pharmaceuticals in countries such as China, Japan, India and other will uplift the APAC market to second position in vitamin B6 (pyridoxine) industry followed by Europe and rest of the world. Some of the key players in the Global Vitamin B6 (Pyridoxine) Market include:
- BASF SE (Germany)
- Huazhong Pharmaceutical (China)
- DSM N. V (Netherlands)
- Acebright Pharmaceuticals Group (China)
- HuiSheng Pharma (China) among others.