Agri-Food and Packaging Synchrotron Industrial Applications

UTC
Maxwell Auditorium (ALBA Synchrotron)

Maxwell Auditorium

ALBA Synchrotron

Carrer de la llum 2-26, Cerdanyola del Vallès (Barcelona) Spain
Description

Agri-food industry is a key societal and economical sector that can be boosted by the advanced synchrotron-based techniques. They can help to introduce new products to adapt to the public’s changing consumption patterns and to add benefits highly appreciated by customers such as safety, nutritional value, and taste; while pursuing competitiveness reducing production costs.

The ALBA Synchrotron offers cutting-edge techniques for the structural characterization of foods at the micro and nanoscale to understand food processing and improve its production.

In this workshop a practical review on the applications of synchrotron techniques to food and packaging will be provided by experts in the characterization of fats and fat emulsions, functional foods, food processing and packaging.

Industrial Liaison Office
    • 09:30 09:50
      Welcome 20m
      Speaker: Caterina Biscari
    • 09:50 10:10
      Overview and general capabilities of ALBA Synchrotron 20m
      Speaker: Miguel A. García Aranda (Scientific Director of the ALBA Synchrotron)
    • 10:10 10:30
      Agricultural and food research and innovation at the European Synchrotron: from field to plate 20m
      Speaker: Ed Mitchell (Head of Business Development at the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility (ESRF))
    • 10:30 10:50
      NFFA-Europe Facilities: Your gateway to nanoscience 20m
      Speaker: Luis Fonseca (Centro Nacional de Microelectrónica)
    • 10:50 11:00
      How to work with ALBA 10m
      Speaker: Alejandro Sánchez (Industrial Office Director of the ALBA Synchrotron)
    • 11:00 11:15
      Coffee break 15m
    • 11:15 11:35
      Significance of lipids polymorphism for food products functionality 20m
      Speaker: Laura Bayés-García (Assistant Professor of the Crystallography Section at the UB)
    • 11:35 11:55
      Study cases for food development using Synchrotron: Functional foods and food traceability 20m
      Speaker: Manuel Valiente (Executive Director of Grup de Tècniques de Separació en Química at the UAB)
    • 11:55 12:15
      Food Packaging at Henkel 20m
      Speaker: Kang Wei Chou (Research Scientist at Henkel Ibérica)
    • 12:15 12:45
      Open discussion
    • 12:45 13:30
      Visit to ALBA Synchrotron facilities
    • 13:30 14:30
      Lunch - Networking