Guelph home to AAFC's 19th food research centre

Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada (AAFC) has opened its 19th national research centre close to the Univ of Guelph. The $10-million Food Research Program centre consolidates all of AAFC's food research activities in the region under one roof and will employ more than 60 people including 22 research scientists. It will also include a 300-sq-m pilot processing plant allowing researchers to gauge the effects of common food-borne pathogens of food processing using pilot-scale equipment. The centre's mandate is to improve food quality, reduce the cost of processing, develop new food products and add value to agricultural commodities for food and non-food usage. Its four research areas are: food preservation technology, nutraceuticals and functional foods, structure and function of foods and molecular and cellular biology....