Name:

1.2 Workshop on Environmental Engineering in Agriculture and Food Processes Technologies

Date:

May 28 - June 8, 2001

Programme:

• Bioethanol for agricultural crops and lignocellulosic materials as an additive to fuels
• Microbial biofilms employment/occurrence in food industry
• Food technology manufacturing centre
• Vacuum cooling - the challenge to meet the food safety requirement
• Lactic acid bacteria and their functional properties
• The aspects of new methods of quality evaluation and control in the technology of sugar, chocolate and sugar confectionery
• Research activities of the Faculty of Food and Biochemical Technology
• Implementation of HACCP in food processing
• BSE - recent problem in food production
• Principe of `Active PackagingA in food processing
• Food safety issues
• HACCP practices in food industry relations to chemical contaminants
• Toxic metals in food supply
• Fundamental principle of microbiology
• Methodical approaches to estimation of the main food pathogenes
• Fundamentals of immunochemistry
• Genetically modified foods and their role in the next century
• Introductory lecture in the field of Czech environmental engineering
• Methyl bromide effect to the life environment for agricultural engineering viewpoint
• Food processes machines for traditional and tropical and subtropical crop-plants
• Environmental engineering in post-harvest and storage technology
• Agricultural engineering in technology agriculture management
• Waste management (from the environmental engineering viewpoint)
• Importance of appropriates food packaging in the tropics and subtropics
• Ecologically sustainable industrial development (ESID) and cleaner protection
• Non-conventional energies in agriculture

The experience and knowledge of the lecturer staff of the Institute of Chemical Technology and the Czech Agriculture University and also know-how of pre-selected industrial companies dealing in the area agriculture and food production was used for preparing this Workshop.

Labs technical visits:

• Department laboratories in Prague Institute of Chemical Technology
• Biotechnology Laboratory of the Institute of Microbiology of the Czech Academy Sciences
• Greenhouses of the Czech Agriculture University 

Industrial Plants Excursions:

• Sugar factory Prague-Modrany
• CEREA, Dobrenice - stocking of seed for sowing
• Brewery Pernstejn, Pardubice
• Agricultural advanced farm Cejkovice - fruit and vegetable processing
• Waste water treatment plant

Participants:

The Workshop was attended by 13 participants from 12 developing/transition countries (Belarus, Croatia, Estonia, India, Lebanon, Lithuania, Macedonia, P.R. China, Romania, Tanzania, Tunisia and Turkey).