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Volume 7, Issue 12 (Suppl) J Food Process Technol 2016
ISSN: 2157-7110 JFPT, an open access journal Food Technology 2016
October 27-29, 2016
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October 27-29, 2016 Rome, Italy
15th International Conference on
Food Processing & Technology
Enabling technologies and green processes for the production of high-value bioactives
Extraction is one of the essential processes in the preparation of key ingredients in food and pharma industry. Choosing
the best technology and procedure has a significant impact on the selectivity and product quality. The development of
enabling technologies for process intensification is a prerequisite to advancing the biorefinery concept and green extraction.
The overall goal is the cost-effective production of high-value ingredients and the recovery of co-products from biomass and
food processing wastes which see ultrasound, hydrodynamic cavitation, microwaves and ball milling technology playing a
pivotal role. Several naturally occurring compounds have progressively moved from the territory of traditional and folklore
medicine to rigorous studies aimed at identifying natural preventive therapies for diseases. It should also be mentioned
that phytochemical and antioxidant characteristics of some bioactive substances can also be affected by physico-chemical
treatments, which may have either positive or negative impacts in their properties. Recent advances on a laboratory or bench-
top scale, demonstrate the big advantages offered by cascade processes with enabling technologies generating reproducible
results for scaling-up.
Biography
Giancarlo Cravotto is full Professor of Organic Chemistry at the University of Turin (Italy) and since 2007 he is Director of the Department of Drug Science and
Technology and he is the President of the European Society of Sonochemistry. His research activity is documented by more than 300 peer reviewed papers, several
book chapters and patents. His group has been partner of several UE projects. Among themARCADE (FP7), MAPSYN “Highly efficient syntheses using alternative
energy forms” (FP7-NMP-2012), “ECOEXTRACTION” (Alcotra 2011) and US4GREENCHEM (Horizon 2020). His research activity is focused on enabling technol-
ogies for green chemical processes and extraction from lab scale to industrial applications.
Giancarlo Cravotto
University of Turin, Italy
Giancarlo Cravotto, J Food Process Technol 2016, 7:12 (Suppl)