MacPherson, Chad W.
Mathieu, Olivier
Tremblay, Julien
Champagne, Julie
Nantel, André
Girard, Stéphanie-Anne
Tompkins, Thomas A.
Article History
Received: 25 October 2017
Accepted: 29 June 2018
First Online: 25 July 2018
Competing Interests
: Authors CWM, OM, SAG and TAT declare that they are employees of Lallemand Health Solutions Inc., a company that researches, manufactures and sells probiotic bacteria to third party companies, not directly to the consumer. JT, JC and AN are paid employees of the National Research Council Canada. This project was funded in its entirety by Lallemand Health Solutions (LHS) Inc. LHS provided financial support in the form of authors’ salaries and research materials. No one within LHS, beyond the research group, participated in the study design, data collection, analysis, decision to publish and preparation of this manuscript. All final research decisions were made by the Research Director of LHS, Dr. Thomas A. Tompkins, one of the author(s) of this manuscript.