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31 October 2006, MinacNed
MinacNed presents roadmap nanofood
On 3 November, the Dutch micro-nano-cluster will discuss its roadmap for MNT in food and nutrition during the Micro Nano Conference in Utrecht. MinacNed wants to bring together clusters of technology providers and food producers in the areas sensors and detection systems; emulsions and emulsion-related textures; filtration and fractioning.
The roadmap includes fourteen “roads” for developing specific innovations in the next five years. These applications promise an added value for consumers willing to pay more, or enable product innovations impossible with the current production processes. The applications are relevant to several subsectors of food and nutrition, the technological barriers are clear and can be overcome in principle, and ongoing R&D in leading Dutch food companies is relevant to achieving them.
Currently, about ten Dutch companies are experimenting with micro and nanotechnology for food and nutrition. Some thirty to forty other companies with their own R&D budget as well as many more SMEs without in-house R&D could benefit from collaborating in precompetitive consortia. Because the roadmap focuses on the border between two sectors, the collaborations are likely to be international. Both Microsystems and nanotechnology developers and food producers may find more suitable partners abroad. There is also room for system integrators to join the emerging consortia. Eventual upscaling of the production of a new nanofood product will require investment, but it is not clear by whom. The government should stimulate innovation by creating the right conditions including regulation. The roadmap is limited to applications in food, but there are clear overlaps with pharmaceuticals and agriculture (see Nanoforum report “Nanotechnology in Agriculture and Food”, April 2006, under publications).
More information:
http://www.minacned.nl/nl/activiteiten/roadma [..]
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(only for registered users)amir, 11 March 2007
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