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Symposium on Value-added Agriculture to be Held in Tifton The University of Georgia’s College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences together with the Georgia Department of Industry, Trade and Tourism will host a Symposium on Value-added Agriculture beginning Thursday, December 13, and ending Friday, December 14, at UGA’s Tifton Campus Conference Center in Tifton, Georgia. The two-day symposium will open Thursday morning at 9:00. Scheduled presentations to the symposium include topics ranging from Commodity Agriculture: Where Did It Go? to Value-added Agriculture: Issues, Options, and Strategies for Georgia. Governor Roy Barnes is scheduled to address the symposium Friday morning, sharing his views on Georgia’s Commitment to Agriculture: A Vision for the Future. A special aspect of the symposium will be Thursday’s breakout sessions, which follow the theme Value-added Agriculture Opportunities. The afternoon sessions will feature various presentations within seven focus areas: The Georgia Oilseed Project, Agri-Eco Tourism, New Crops for Georgia, Wildlife and Natural Resources, Nutraceuticals/Plant Chemistries, Biofuels and Renewable Energy, and Value-added Processing. The symposium adjourns Friday morning at 11:45. For more information, call UGA’s Tifton Campus Conference Center at (229) 386-3416 or visit http://www.ugatiftonconference.org. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Call for Proposals Format on the Web The FY 2003 FoodPAC Call for Proposals packet was mailed in early November. If you have not received a copy and would like one, go to FoodPAC’s website at http://foodpac.gatech.edu. Project proposals are due Friday, February 1, 2002. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Annual Report Nears Completion Final reports for FY 2001 FoodPAC projects have been received, and the FoodPAC FY 2001-2002 Report to Industry is scheduled to be available in late December. A copy of the report will also be available on FoodPAC’s website at http://foodpac.gatech.edu. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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Fused Vision/X-ray Screening System Detects Missed Bone Fragments in Food Products Georgia Tech researchers in cooperation with Cagle’s Inc., Sylvest Farms, and Spectral Fusion Technologies have developed a novel fused imaging and x-ray system to find missed fan bones in deboned poultry products. Spectral Fusion manufactures an advanced x-ray screening system that is capable of detecting missed bone fragments in product, but the accuracy of detecting fan bones is less than 30 percent. The fused system is more than 90 percent effective and enables Spectral Fusion to tune its x-ray system for more effective detection of other bone fragments. It will also give Spectral Fusion improved food-safety screening ability and particularly enhance the company’s ability to meet rigorous bone-free product standards imposed by fast-food companies such as McDonald’s, Burger King, Wendy’s, etc. Cagle’s and Sylvest have provided their expertise and poultry processing plants for testing of the system and are anxiously awaiting access to the first commercial units. Spectral Fusion, based in Birmingham, England, donated the x-ray unit to Tech, while the image screening system is funded with research dollars provided by Georgia’s Traditional Industries Program for Food Processing. The fused system involves intellectual property, which Spectral Fusion is in the process of licensing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . UGA Hosts Sanitation Program Improvement Workshop The Georgia Center for Continuing Education on the University of Georgia campus in Athens, Georgia, will host the American Meat Science Association’s “Improving Your Sanitation Program” for meat and poultry processors on November 29-30. This two-day, comprehensive workshop was developed in cooperation with UGA and Virginia Tech food scientists, and is designed for anyone responsible for meat or poultry processing plant sanitation, including quality control supervisors, HACCP coordinators, plant engineers, and production managers. The course will address such topics as:
For more information, contact Estes Reynolds by phone at (706) 542-2574 or by e-mail at ereynold@arches.uga.edu. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Remember… |
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