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

利用丰富的食物垃圾和副产品来可持续生产各种现有的和新的产品被认为是防止制造浪费的潜在策略。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，包括蔬菜和水果切屑、水果和糖浆、谷物残渣和废谷物以及鱼类和肉类废料。这是通过结合工业生物技术（IB）和工艺工程技术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、特种和平台化学品，并在化学、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，我们必须提高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，以高效、环保和成本效益的方式大规模地从这些原料中提取、分馏和转化生物成分为生物产品。为了应对上述挑战，一个多学科的方法是必要的，提议的网络旨在将化学、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、包装和过程工程等领域的研究人员和实业家聚集在一起，以开发新的平台来开发这些丰富的自然资源。该网络将运行5年，对新成员开放，并具有很强的国际影响力。它将根据行业趋势、研究能力的进步、政府政策和监管框架，在其职权范围内动态发展。

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.