Innovations
| CPUT Food Technology Complex | ||
An artist's impression showing the oblique front view of the CPUT Food Technology Complex. |
The white building represents the 1500m² pilot plant. |
The multi-faceted complex will be used to help train university students. |
The interior of the CPUT Food Technology Complex. |
The Food Technology Complex is scheduled to open in November 2010. |
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| Key Technology Fluoraptor Laser Sorting System | ||
The FluoRaptor system process begins with separating the vegetable material. |
The Optyx Raptor system has visible/infrared cameras to detect even small defects in a product. |
The screen on the FluoRaptor system displays information about what the laser scans and sees. |
The Optyx Vis/IR camera allows detection of even small colour differences in vegetables, such as dark patches or bruises. |
The FluoRaptor system can detect and remove foreign bodies such as cardboard, plastic, metal, glass and also insects from fresh leaf products. |
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| Maple Leaf Foods ThinkFOOD! Centre | ||
124-seat theatre |
The ThinkFOOD! centre provides a learning environment where product developers can develop food concepts and menu ideas. |
Labs can be used for production development. |
| Nestlé R&D Centre | ||
The R&D centre at Santiago, Chile. |
The facility is one of Nestle’s 28 global R&D centres. |
The inauguration of the facility took place on 5 January 2010. |
| NMR Technology in Food Processing, | ||
The IFR is developing NMR as a viable technology for food processing applications. |
NMR is a technique relying on magnetic spin of atomic nuclei being flipped between energy states by a powerful magnetic field. |
Samples in food processing can undergo many irreversible changes. NMR technology can help to monitor these changes. |
NMR spectrometers have previously used huge super-conducting magnets but the new developments of the Halbach NMR will use much smaller magnets for the measurements required. |
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| Pathatrix Pathogen Testing System | ||
The Pathatrix Pathogen system captures bacteria as the food matrix, in this case liquid chocolate, is passed through the tube. |
Bacteria are captured in the Pathogen system by an immobilised antibody complex. |
Cadbury is using the Pathatrix system after contamination issues caused the company £50m in product recalls. |
After the process antibody-bacteria complex can be eluted for analysis. |
The Pathogen system can also be configured for a pooling system, which saves time and money while processing a large number of samples. |
Several forms of analysis can be carried out by the Pathatrix system for bacteria detection. |
| Rutgers' Food Innovation Center, New Jersey | ||
The Food Innovation Center is located in Bridgeton, New Jersey. |
Products are made in the dry processing room. |
The 2,000ft² hot process area produces beverages, soups, meals and other food items |
| Sugar Refining Plant, Louisiana | ||
Design rendering by Baisch Engineering of Kaukauna, Wisconsin. |
Groundbreaking for Louisiana Sugar Refining’s new plant in Gramercy. |
Construction at the site of the new Louisiana Sugar Refining plant site. |
Construction is planned to be completed in early 2011. |
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| Tyson Foods Discovery Center | ||
The facility is based in Springdale, Arkansas in the US. |
The construction included building additional office space. |
Tyson Foods' Discovery Center is considered a hub of food innovation. |
| UV Disinfection for Meat and Fish, | ||
UV disinfection systems can help meat and fish processors to improve their hygiene and safety protocols. |
UV lamps such as those supplied by Hanovia require little maintenance and therefore allow optimum use. |
Harmful bacteria such as Listeria and E. coli can be destroyed through the use of UV disinfection. |
Pennine Foods in South Yorkshire has installed two Hanovia UV systems so that it can disinfect water used for wash down of equipment. |
The Silver Spring Mineral Water Company in Folkestone uses UV disinfection to treat all of its bottled water. |
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