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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