Food Processing Waste and By-Products Utilisation Network (FoodWasteNet)

利用丰富的食物垃圾和副产品可持续地生产各种现有的和新的产品被认为是一个潜在的战略，以防止制造废物。这是由环境和消费者压力、欧盟立法以及对具有正碳平衡的可再生生物基产品的商业需求推动的。有大量的研究试图从这些原料中开发具有市场潜力的产品，这些原料包括蔬菜和水果切边、水果和糖浆、谷物残渣和用过的谷物以及鱼和肉废料。这是通过使用工业生物技术（IB）和工艺工程技术相结合的提取和提取后改性来实现的。目标产品包括但不限于生物聚合物、生物塑料、生物复合材料、油脂化学品以及特种和平台化学品，并且在化学、制药、食品、包装和建筑行业中具有现有或潜在的应用。为了实现这一目标，我们必须加强对这些原料的组成和潜在用途的了解;如何应用现有的和新兴的技术，以有效、环保和成本效益高的方式，大规模地从这些原料中提取、分馏和转化生物组分为生物产品。为了应对上述挑战，多学科方法是必要的，拟议的网络旨在汇集化学、微生物学、分子生物学、酶学、微生物发酵、化学催化、聚合物科学、作物科学、包装和加工工程领域的研究人员和工业家，以期为开发这些丰富的自然资源开发新的平台。该网络将运行5年，向新成员开放，并具有强大的国际层面。它将在其职权范围和发展动态，采用行业趋势，研究能力，政府政策和监管框架的进步。

The exploitation of abundant food waste and by-products for the sustainable production of a variety of existing and novel products is recognised as a potential strategy for the prevention manufacturing waste. This is driven by environmental and consumer pressures, EU legislation and commercial demands for renewable, biobased products with positive carbon balance. There is a large body of research which seeks to develop products with market potential from such feedstocks, including vegetable and fruit trimmings, fruit and sugar pulps, cereal residues and spent cereal grains, and fish and meat wastes. This is achieved through extraction and post-extraction modification using a combination of industrial biotechnology (IB) and process engineering technologies. The target products include, but are not limited to, biopolymers, bioplastics, biocomposites, oleochemicals, and speciality and platform chemicals, and have existing or potential application in the chemical, pharmaceutical, food, packaging and construction industries. In order to achieve this, it is essential that we enhance our knowledge of the composition and potential uses of these feedstocks; how to apply existing and emerging technologies for extracting, fractionating and converting biocomponents from such feedstocks to bioproducts at large scale and in an efficient, environmentally friendly and cost-effective way.To address the above challenges, a multidisciplinary approach is necessary and the proposed Network aims to bring together researchers and industrialists working in the areas of chemistry, microbiology, molecular biology, enzymology, microbial fermentation, chemical catalysis, polymer science, crop science, packaging and process engineering, with the view to develop novel platforms for the exploitation of these rich natural resources. The Network will run for 5 years, be open for new members and have a strong international dimension. It will be dynamic in its remit and evolve, adopting industry trends, advances in research capabilities, government policy and regulatory frameworks.