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A new web site for the Science and Process Engineering of Agricultural Products Division
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INRA, J-M Bossennec
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The 500 researchers and technicians of the Division for Science and Process Engineering of Agricultural Products (CEPIA) have a dual research goal: to understand and control the quality construction of products and foods, and to develop the use of renewable resources by improving the performance of “green” products: biofuels, materials and molecules for fine chemistry. A new web site presents the Division, its activities, its research and its tools in these two fields of food quality and renewable resources.
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Understanding and characterising the quality of products and food
The quality of food can be described by numerous sensorial, nutritional and safety characteristics. The variability of the quality of raw materials in response to genetic factors or production processes remains a challenge for transformation and must be approached from a global point of view. The research priority of the Division is the necessity of adapting food characteristics to consumer expectations, particularly in the areas of nutrition, pleasure and ease of use.
The Division uses the process-product-procedure approach throughout the various processing stages. The goal is to determine the reaction mechanisms and to model processes that lead to obtaining the desired structures and properties of intermediate foods and food products.
Organising research around the idea of using the plant as a whole
Renewable resources consist of overall agricultural production for non-food uses or of its lignocellulosic co-products, including forestry co-products: small grains, starch, wood fibres, oils and seeds, etc. Whatever the plant type or structure studied, the Division’s research revolves around:
- the characterisation of macromolecules and their assemblies, extending all the way to organites and tissues;
- the physical and/or enzymatic fractionation of products harvested;
- the enzymatic and/or microbiological transformation of certain fractionation products;
- the creation of intermediate products combining chemical, enzymatic and physical approaches.
A web site designed to cater for a wide public
- the scientific community, with a full description of research activities, fundamental results as well as offers of PhD and postdoctoral fellowships;
- representatives of the different economic sectors interested in the division's research, with a presentation of the experimental platforms open to partnership, offers of commercial software and results chosen for their potential in terms of innovation;
- and finally students, journalists and information officers, with extensive information and results from the division's research units.
Discover the site now:
http://www.inra.fr/cepia_eng |
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Label for the news :
News
Date for the news :
2011.03.08
Date of creation : 15/10/2008
Date of last update : 10/11/2008
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