Today, many food waste recovery projects progress around the world,
whereas the publication of several scientific articles, the obtainment of
related patents, the organization of congresses and industrial efforts in the
field have emerged a wealth of literature.
Special
Interest Group 5 (SIG5) of ISEKI Food
Association (IFA), which is the biggest network
worldwide in the field of food waste recovery, aspires to fill in the gap
between academia and industry in the particular field. The group complements three years of operation and has already attracted the attention of the scientific community
(recently recommended
by EU Food Waste - Good Practices in the category of Awareness, information and
education), acting as an umbrella that observes all the research, innovation,
commercialization and teaching efforts and leads many of them.
Teaching Tools
Lifelong
learning is often considered to be a normal part of working and personal life,
as technological trends are always bringing new challenges in the field of food
science. SIG5 is leading efforts for the development of teaching
activities in its subject of interest, mainly by volunteering actions. Starting
with a webinar
series three years ago (accounting 15 lectures with a total of >500
individual scientists from >60 countries), the group contributed to the further
development of the "5-Stages Universal Recovery
Process" (referred
in a review article) to a book that explores in depth the theory and
methodologies behind the recovery of high added-value compounds from food
wastes. The book was recently recommended by FAO and EU Food Waste - Good Practices, in the category of Research & Innovation.
Heading
in 2016, more initiatives are planned with a final purpose of offering integral
teaching tools for researchers, academics, students, professionals and
industrial partners activated in the field. Therefore, "basic
reading" will be enhanced with a chapter entitled "High
value-added material recovery from food waste" included in Elsevier
Reference Module in Food Science and numerous chapters in more than four
scientific forthcoming books of Elsevier Food Science Resources.
Read More in the following link:
http://scitechconnect.elsevier.com/food-waste-recovery-2016/
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