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Centre for Innovation and Research
on Prohealthy and Safe Food
University of Agriculture in Krakow
General information
The Center for Innovation and Research on Healthy and Safe Food at the University of Agriculture in Cracow is a university-wide unit supporting the scientific community and the economic environment through a comprehensive approach to food research and production – from the analysis of raw materials, through the design of a new product or production process in laboratories, transferring research results to a semi-technical scale, production and analysis of an innovative product, to the optimization of storage conditions and waste management.
The technical R&D facilities include:
- technological laboratories: bakery and confectionery, meat and fish technology, mini-brewery with a grinding plant, sensory laboratory,
- laboratories: food microbiology and microbiological safety, analytical, HPLC MS-MS, waste processing technology,
- basic processes laboratory equipped with, among others, a twin-screw extruder with a texturizing attachment for proteins, a supercritical CO2 extractor, a spray dryer, a vacuum evaporator, a freeze dryer, a multi-tasking machine, a device for food preservation using the high-pressure method.
The Centre also has specialist laboratories enabling scientific cooperation with other academic and research centres. They include, among others, a laboratory of highly specialised analytical techniques (equipped with an odour analyser), juice, beverage and wine technology, milk processing technology, a catering laboratory, a bioprocess laboratory, a physical modification laboratory (equipped with stations for food preservation using a pulsed electric field and electromagnetic radiation), a drying laboratory and a laboratory for the recovery of health-promoting substances, as well as a laboratory for sorting, packaging, wrapping and labelling raw materials. Our unit also offers cooperation in the area of issues related to human nutrition using the facilities of the nutrigenomics, proteomics, histology and primary cell laboratories.
