Total Food 2009 - Sustainability of the Agri-Food Chain

Final programme for Total Food 2009

A number of the presentations given at the conference are available below in PDF format.

Wednesday 22nd April

WELCOME & OPENING PRESENTATION - Sandra Dinneen, Chief Executive (South Norfolk Council)

WELCOME - Mike Saltmarsh (Royal Society of Chemistry)

SESSION 1: Key drivers
Chair: Keith Waldron (IFR)

PLENARY LECTURE

Mark Barthel (Waste & Resources Action Programme, UK)
The Food We Waste: tackling behaviour change head on

PLENARY LECTURE

Bart Gremmen (Wageningen UR, The Netherlands)
A socio-economic perspective on co-product exploitation

COFFEE

SESSION 2a: Value added products I - Plants
Chair: Maria A. Martin-Cabrejas (Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Spain)

PLENARY LECTURE

Paul Kroon (Institute of Food Research, UK)

Apple polyphenols - exploitation opportunities and the evidence for health benefits

Lucy Bialek (Unilever R & D, The Netherlands)
Food applications of novel ingredients from agro-based sustainable sources
Nicolás Meneses (Berlin University of Technology, Germany)
Pulsed electric field assisted extraction of secondary plant metabolites

Valentina Stojceska (Manchester Metropolitan University, UK)
Improving the textural characteristics of brewer's spent grain breads by combination of sour dough and different enzymes

Manuel Viuda-Martos (Universidad Miguel Hernández, Spain)
Effect of packaging conditions on shelf-life of bologna sausages made with orange juice wastewater and oregano essential oil

LUNCH + POSTER SESSION

SESSION 2a: Value added products I - Plants (cont.)
Chair: Huug de Vries (Wageningen UR, The Netherlands)

PLENARY LECTURE

Paulus Kosters (Provalor BV, The Netherlands)
Production of high value functional vegetable juices from industrial co-products

Maria A. Martin-Cabrejas (Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Spain)
Effects of industrial processing on content and properties of dietary fibre of strawberry wastes

Chek Zaini-Hassan (Islamic Science University of Malaysia)
Formulation of High Fiber cookies from Guava (Psidium guajava L.) agro waste / decanter waste
Hilde Wijngaard (Teagasc Ashtown Food Research Centre, Ireland)
Optimisation of extraction of antioxidant compounds from apple pomace
Peter Wilde (Institute of Food Research, UK)
Extracting novel foam and emulsion stability enhancers from spent grain

TEA + POSTER SESSION

SESSION 2b: Value added products II - Fish, meat & dairy
Chair: Gus Atri (Northern Foods plc, UK)

PLENARY LECTURE

Jean-Pascal Bergé (IFREMER, France)
Everything is good in fish

Natalie Hotrum (NIZO Food Research, The Netherlands)
Dairy side-stream valorisation

Roberta Di Bernardini (Teagasc Ashtown Food Research Centre, Ireland)
The use of commercial enzymes for the production of potential bioactive peptides from low value bovine muscle and bovine offal proteins

RECEPTION – Institute of Food Research


Thursday 23rd April

SESSION 3: Measuring sustainability
Chair: Gary Tucker (Campden BRI, UK)

PLENARY LECTURE

Ulf Sonesson (SIK, Sweden)
LCA for co-product exploitation

Bruce Tofield (University of East Anglia, UK)
Greenhouse gas emissions from agriculture, food and drink

Jennifer Davis (SIK, Sweden)
Environmental assessment of novel processing technologies in the food industry

COFFEE

SESSION 4: Integrated approaches – process and chain
Chair: Rachel James (Resource Efficiency Knowledge Transfer Network, UK)

PLENARY LECTURE

David Napper (Euroteknik Ltd, UK)
Process optimisation

PLENARY LECTURE

Peter Calliafas (London Waste and Recycling Board, UK)
Waste disposal - a wasted resource opportunity

Karin Östergren (SIK, Sweden)
Integrated evaluation of food process systems for improved efficiency and reduced environmental impact

David Russell (Food Processing Knowledge Transfer Network, UK)
Sustainable exploitation of food manufacturing co-products : case studies
Henry Jäger (Berlin University of Technology, Germany)
Non-thermal technologies for energy efficient cell disintegration of plant raw materials and by-products
Luca Falasconi (University of Bologna, Italy)
Last Minute Market – Increasing the economic, social and environmental value of unsold products in the food chain

LUNCH + POSTER SESSION

Networking in action: Launch of Food Chain Sustainability Special Interest Group (www.ifr.ac.uk/waste)

TEA + POSTER SESSION

SESSION 5: Energy recovery and technologies for water recovery & recycling
Chair: Ken Johnston (Food Processing Knowledge Transfer Network, UK)

PLENARY LECTURE

Conly Hansen (Utah State University, USA)
Biomethane and biohydrogen from food byproduct

PLENARY LECTURE

Liisa Viikari (University of Helsinki, Finland)
Bioalcohol - a biorefinery approach

Adam Elliston (Achor Innovation / Institute of Food Research, UK)
The inhibitory effect on cellulase hydrolysis action due to alcohols

PLENARY LECTURE

Jiri Klemes (University of Pannonia, Hungary)
Water recycling and recovery

Thomas Petit (Université de La Réunion, France)
Chemical and technological characteristics of rum distillery wastewater treated using fungi

CONFERENCE DINNER – Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts

After-dinner speaker : Trevor Davies, Pro-Vice Chancellor (Research), University of East Anglia, UK

 

Friday 24th April

SESSION 6: Bulk products for food, feed & non-food uses
Chair: Jean-François Thibault (INRA Nantes, France)

PLENARY LECTURE

Stéphane Guilbert (INRA Montpellier, France)
Bio-Polymers and Bio-Sourced polymers: A contribution for the conception of sustainable packaging

PLENARY LECTURE

Thomas Bechtold (University of Innsbruck, Austria)
Sustainable dyes from agri-food chain co-products

Maija Tenkanen (University of Helsinki, Finland) Cereal arabinoxylans as raw materials for biodegradable films

Susana Extebarria (AZTI Tecnalia, Spain)
Food fraction valorisation as animal feed in Basque Country

Rocio Rodriguez-Arcos (CSIC Sevilla, Spain)
Asparagus fibres as reinforcing materials for developing 100% biodegradable packaging

COFFEE

SESSION 7: Sustainability in the food chain : future perspectives
Chair: Huub Lelieveld (EFFoST)

PLENARY LECTURE

Andrew Fearne (Centre for Value Chain Research, University of Kent, UK)
Sustainable food chains: a value chain perspective

PLENARY LECTURE

Roland Clift (Centre of Environmental Strategy, University of Surrey, UK)
Sustainability – a future perspective

LUNCH
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