This project works on innovative regeneration techniques for prepared vegetables while maintaining quality in important health care settings. "Regeneration" means reheating and preparing prepared and cooled (or frozen) vegetables for tasty consumption in the best possible way.
Evaluation of food quality throughout the vegetable processing chain
Contacts: Labeling: Barbara DuquenneReference working: Hadewig WerbrouckHoney quality: Wim Reybroeck > See the complete list of analyses > Back to the list of Food analyses > Back to Food production
Analyses of food composition, authenticity and quality
Main research questionMicrobial contamination in the food industry constitutes an important risk for the safety and quality of food products. Despite cleaning and disinfection food contact surfaces often remain soiled with attached microbial communities called biofilms.
Understanding of multispecies biofilms in the food industry is indispensible to control biofilm related food safety and quality issues
Contact: hadewig.werbrouck@ilvo.vlaanderen.be; +32 9 272 30 18 Ringonderzoek The Food Pilot and ILVO organize various ring tests, most of which focus on physico-chemical analyses. In order to demonstrably guarantee the organization of these ring tests, ILVO chose to accredit most ring tests in accordance with the ISO 17043 standard.
Quality assurance
Steering meat quality via breed (choice) and sex
Eline Kowalski investigated how to measure and improve meat quality and pork processing attributes (technological quality), taking the profitability of pig production as well as the recent ban on surgical castration into account .
Searching together for ways to improve water quality
Wat is Food Pilot?
De Food Pilot is een pilootfabriek die de innovatie van de Vlaamse Agro-Food industrie moet ondersteunen. Ze biedt aan bedrijven uit de Agro-Food sector de mogelijkheid om nieuwe concepten of producten te testen alvorens ze op industriële schaal te produceren.
High-quality oils grown locally offer opportunities in bio-based economy
Zinc source for broilers affects performance, intestinal health and meat quality
Zinc source for broilers affects performance, intestinal health and meat quality
Measurements in production: Improving hygiene, processing, product quality (free webinar)
SPECTRAL (VISION)TECHNOLOGY DEMO: Pork NIR- & hyperspectral analysisDEMO: Pilot set-up for inline sorting11:30 End Detailed program on the Flanders' Food website
On a regular basis we organize practical workshops in the Food Pilot about novelties in food processing. For this event, we chose for a webinar about SENSORS, DATA and DATA PROCESSING. We will discuss the principles, the results of our trials and the pros and cons. We will evaluate how they can offer added value for optimizing production.