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.

Please, download an overview of the project results here. Summary download
For further information, please, contact the Project Coordinator Prof. Chlodwig Franz

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5-7th May, 2008
The Final Meeting was held in Athens/Rafina. The final results were discussed analysed. The most promising results can be found within the summary. Detailed results will be available end of November 2008.
January 2008
In-line with the FEED-SEG Project (www.feed-seg.net) the results of the SAFEWASTES project have been presented and discussed with other project coordinators and partners, but also with representatives from FEFANA, EFSA and the EC.
March, 2007
2nd Annual Meeting in Pulawy, Poland, to discuss the first promising results of in-vivo and in-vitro results - SAFEWASTES material.

Detailed results
Till end of November 2008 you will find here more detailed results from the project work. Results from:
  • phyto-chemical work
  • in-vitro testing
  • in-vivo testing
The partners
SAFEWASTES project groups academic staff and food industry SMEs from all over Europe.
High Quality
SAFEWASTES was able to help manufacturers to gain knowledge for safer, higher quality food and feed.
Project results
SAFEWASTES has achieved very promising results which resulted in patent applications and very interesting publications. Please, download an overview of the results here. Summary download
For further information, please, contact the Project Coordinator Prof. Chlodwig Franz
 
Please, get in contact with us for further information.

Prof. Chlodwig Franz
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