Stevia World

QiBin Wang is Vice President of Research & Development for GLG’s seed operations. An academic, he has taught all levels of school including university levels and has served in various administrative positions in Chinese universities including President of Bengbu Cadre College.
Mr. Wang began cultivating stevia in 1984 and established a stevia growing base with Tianjin [...]

With over 30 years of experience, Dr. Luke Zhang is a recognized individual in the business, medical and academic communities in both North America and Asia. He has successfully built and managed a number of firms in the health industry, food industry, medical equipment and software development industries.
He holds a Ph. D. in Pharmacology from [...]

Prof. Dr Tran Dinh Long obtained his D.Sc. Doctor in Genetics and Plant Breeding from the Kishinev State University in the USSR. He has published several books and co-authored some other books on Stevia rebaudiana Bertoni and many other books on agriculture crops and medical plants.
Prof. Dr. Long started in 1989 to manage the development [...]

Murali Dharan is the CEO and Co-Founder of Mianzhu Gold Tree Agrotech in Sichuan, Eastern China.
Murali has been conducting business in China for 15 years. He was previously operating in the oil & gas sector.
He chanced upon Stevia opportunity in 2005, when China pushed to build up the Eastern part of the country. After careful [...]

EUSTAS, the European Stevia Association, is a nonprofit organization, founded and presided by Prof. Jan Geuns from the University of Leuven, Belgium.
EUSTAS’s role is to promote and coordinate all activities focusing on research and health in relation to Stevia rebaudiana and related compounds, to show that they are safe for human consumption and to place [...]

Li Yan is a Professor at Jinan University, Guangzhou, China
He was the former director of food Science & Technology R&D Center in Jinan University.
Li Yan has been engaged in the research and teaching of “Preparation and Application of Food Additives” for a long time. He has presided over and completed several national, provincial and ministerial-level [...]

Dr Ahmed E. Attia El-Shikh is a Researcher in the Breeding and Genetics Department, Sugar Crops Research Institute, Agricultural Research Center, Ministry of Agriculture, Egypt. He is responsible for stevia scientific program in the Sugar Crops Research Institute. He has a PhD degree in Agricultural Sciences from Ain-Shams University, Egypt on Stevia Propagation Methods. He’s [...]

Granular, the European stevia company, markets Real Stevia TM  to the global Food and Beverage industry. It was founded in 2004 and is headquartered in Stockholm, Sweden. Granular has it roots in Paraguay, where it works in close collaboration with local NGOs and is growing certified organic leaves. It is now extending its Asian operations [...]

The Centre of Plant and Water Sciences of CQUniversity researches issues of plant production, utilisation and conservation, and related natural resource management of relevance to the sustainable development of Central Queensland and climatically similar regions.  It provides a range of research training opportunities at the postgraduate and undergraduate level in the plant and water sciences. [...]

PureCircle (LSE:PURE) is the world’s leading producer of high-purity Rebaudioside A (Reb A), with a vertically integrated supply chain operating in three continents. PureCircle markets a range of natural sweeteners internationally. Activities range from the sourcing of dry stevia leaves and extraction, refining of high-purity Reb A into sweeteners and marketing of these sweeteners to [...]

GRAS Associates, LLC provides technical regulatory consulting services associated with foods that are regulated by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA).  We specialize in the safety review of food ingredients which may be considered to be “Generally Recognized as Safe” or GRAS.
The services that we provide respond to the expanding industry needs to access [...]

Morita Kagaku Kogyo Co., Ltd., the first company in the world to succeed in the commercialization of Stevia, from cultivation to refinement, it is the pioneer of Stevia sweeteners. Focusing early on Stevia’s future potential, Morita Kagaku Kogyo made concentrated efforts to improve Stevia’s quality of sweetness and developed a variety rich in Rebaudioside A, [...]