About the Authors

Chad W. MacPherson

cmacpherson@lallemand.com

Affiliation Lallemand Health Solutions Inc., 6100 avenue Royalmount, Montreal, QC, Canada

Padmaja Shastri

Affiliation University of Ontario Institute of Technology, Oshawa, Canada

Olivier Mathieu

Affiliation Lallemand Health Solutions Inc., 6100 avenue Royalmount, Montreal, QC, Canada

Thomas A. Tompkins

Affiliation Lallemand Health Solutions Inc., 6100 avenue Royalmount, Montreal, QC, Canada

Pierre Burguière

Affiliation Lallemand Health Solutions Inc., 6100 avenue Royalmount, Montreal, QC, Canada

Competing Interests

All the authors (CM, OM and PB) declare they are paid employees in the Research and Development sector of Lallemand Health Solutions Inc. PS is a paid consultant to Lallemand Health Solutions Inc. Lallemand Health Solutions Inc. is a privately-owned company that researches, manufactures and sells probiotic microbes business-to-business, not directly to the consumer. This commercial affiliation does not alter our adherence to all PLOS ONE policies on sharing our data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: CWM TAT PB. Formal analysis: CWM OM. Investigation: CWM OM. Methodology: CWM. Project administration: CWM. Resources: CWM OM. Supervision: TAT. Validation: CWM. Visualization: CWM PS. Writing – original draft: CWM PS. Writing – review & editing: CWM PS OM TAT PB.