METROFOOD-CZ infrastructure – professional assistance in the field of agriculture, quality and safe food and nutrition

Result code in IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00027006%3A_____%2F25%3A10178052" target="_blank" >RIV/00027006:_____/25:10178052 - isvavai.cz</a>

Result on the web

<a href="http://www.czechfoodchem.cz/Sbornik_abstraktu_2025.pdf" target="_blank" >http://www.czechfoodchem.cz/Sbornik_abstraktu_2025.pdf</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

—

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

METROFOOD-CZ infrastructure – professional assistance in the field of agriculture, quality and safe food and nutrition

Original language description

METROFOOD-CZ is a major research infrastructure for food and nutrition, operating in accordance with the RIS3 strategy. Its main objective is to conduct and support new interdisciplinary research in areas ranging from primary agricultural production, through food processing, technology and storage, to the quality, authenticity, safety and traceability of food, raw materials, products and food supplements, database creation, development of new methods and reference materials.The METROFOOD-CZ infrastructure was established in January 2017 as a national node of the international METROFOOD-RI infrastructure, which involves 48 organizations from 18 countries. In 2018, the LRI was included among the Czech large infrastructures on the Roadmap of Large Research Infrastructures of the Czech Republic, in the Health and Food domain. It consists of three partners – Czech University of Life Sciences Prague (CZU, main coordinator), Czech Agrifood Research Center (CARC) and University of Chemistry and Technology Prague (UTC Prague).The activities of the CARC research team (Division of Food) in the last year were focused on the development and validation of analytical methods (e.g. determination of chitin content, phenolic substances) and the use of modern technologies (high pressure for treating breast milk), food reformulation (reducing the content of sugars, saturated fatty acids, salt, increasing the content of proteins, fiber), the development of foods for consumers with specific nutritional requirements (especially gluten-free diet), food waste in connection with sustainable food production and consumption, risky nutrients, the use of fermentation technologies, probiotics and prebiotics and the determination of food allergens. In addition, METROFOOD-CZ also offered services in the field of education at events for the general public and professionals, whether they were conferences, workshops or exhibitions and fairs.As part of the development applications and cooperation with the industrial sector, new, industrially usable technical solutions were protected, which went beyond the scope of mere professional skills. Several innovative foods in the areas of using alternative protein sources, food reformulation, and the use of plant extracts were protected through utility models last year.

Czech name

—

Czech description

—

Type

O - Miscellaneous

CEP classification

—

OECD FORD branch

40401 - Agricultural biotechnology and food biotechnology

Project

—

Continuities

—

Publication year

2025

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů