Turning organic waste into healthy feed

The food industry’s processing of fruit, vegetables and plants produces millions of tons of organic waste, by-products and residues annually. Today’s technology for reusing these waste materials is very limited, and industry mostly disposes of them through composting or incineration, costing millions of Euros and contributing to environmental problems.

The European Union wants to put this organic material to better use. The Specific Targeted Research Project SAFEWASTES combines 12 participants from seven countries who are working to develop innovative biotechnology for processing and purifying organic materials from the food and plant-based-additive industries. The objective is to recover valuable compounds for use in food and feed additives with significant health benefits for animals and human beings
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4th September, 2007
Invitation to Workshop "Value-added products from phyto-industrial organic wastes"during the 55th International Congress and Annual Meeting of the Society for Medicinal Plant Research (GA), Graz/Austria, 2.-6. Sept. 2007 (www.ga2007.org). Download Invitation
July, 2006
Meeting in Graz, Austria, to discuss the first promising results of evaluated SAFEWASTES material.
March, 2007
2nd Annual Meeting in Pulawy, Poland, to discuss the first promising results of in-vivo and in-vitro results - SAFEWASTES material.

IN MEMORIAM
Constantinos Alexopoulos ! The SAFEWASTES team is deeply saddened about the loss of our colleague and friend Costas. We will keep him as a funny and nice man but also as a excellent scientist in our minds. The team thanks for having had the chance to know and work with Costas, our thoughts are with his family, friends and colleagues. The SAFEWASTES team.
The partners
SAFEWASTES project groups academic staff and food industry SMEs from all over Europe.
High Quality
SAFEWASTES will help manufacturers employ scientific approaches to meet consumer demands for safer, higher quality food and feed.
1st results
SAFEWASTES has achieved very promising results after the first year. You can find a publishable summary within the section Activities. Summary download
 
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