Conference program Friday 18 September 2009

Session topic:

Retaining nutritional value through the processing chain to the consumer's plate

Chairpersons: Alex Oliveira, Alaska and Can Altinelataman, Turkey 

09:00 Keynote speaker: Charlotte Jacobsen, DTU Aqua, Denmark
 
 -    Retaining Nutritional and Sensory Quality of Seafood Products by Antioxidant Protection: Challenges and Pitfalls

 

Helena M. Moreno, Instituto del Frío-CSIC, Spain                                            
   -   Oxidation of restructured fatty fish products                                             

Turid Rustad, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway
   -   Fish protein hydrolysates as antioxidants in model and food system

Subramaniam Sathivel, Louisiana State University Agricultural Center, USA
   -   Using adsorption technology for purifying fish oil                                      

Nina Skall Nielsen, DTU Aqua, Denmark                                                          
   -   Preventing Lipid Oxidation in Foods Enriched With Fish Oil                       

Peter Bechtel, USDA-Agricultural Research Service, Alaska, USA                    
   -   Quality of muscle protein from marine fish, mammalian and avian sources 

Tao Wang, University of Iceland, Iceland                                                        
   -   Algal polyphenols as novel natural antioxidants

 

11:00 Coffee

 

Session topic:

Robotics and application of new technology in the seafood processing industry

Chairpersons: Mike Morrissey, Oregon and Stina Frosch, Denmark

11:30 Keynote speaker: Kristinn Anderson, Marel, Iceland
  
-   Emerging technologies in fish processing

 

Harry Westavik, SINTEF Fisheries and Aquaculture, Norway
   -   Pin bone removal in pre-rigor salmon

Ulf Erikson, SINTEF Fisheries and Aquaculture, Norway
   -   Analysis of residual blood in Atlantic salmon body cavity by computer vision (quality control), and by various methods in unstressed and stressed fillets

 

12:30 - 13:30 Lunch

 

Karsten Heia, Nofima Marin, Norway
   -   Detection of blood and melanin spots in fresh and processed salmon fillets

Bjørn Skovlund Dissing, DTU Informatics, Denmark
   -   Determination of fat and astaxanthin concentrations in rainbow trout by mulitispectral image analysis

Hartmut Rehbein, Max Rubner-Institute, Germany
   -   Chemical, physical and molecular biological methods to authenticate fish oil capsules

Björn Margeirsson, Matis, Iceland
   -   Experimental and numerical investigation of thermal performance of wholesale fresh fish packaging

 

14:30 Announcement of WEFTA 2010 and presentation of Research Prorities to be delivered to the Nordic Council of Ministers by a group of experts based on TAFT 2009 presentations.

  

Industry session

Chairperson: Torger Børresen, Denmark

14:45 Introductory presentations

Luigi Giannini, FEDERPESCA, Italy
  -    The fish industry expectations about technological solutions for on board and at-shore processing devoted to restaurant demand

Eddy G. Torp, DUE MILJØ AS, Norway
  -    Membrane Technologies – ”FracSep®"

Nigel Rogers, Avure Technologies AB, Sweden
  -    HPP seafood applications

Carl D. Crowell, Crowell Ing, Oregon
  -    International Trade and Seafood Technology - Importing products of foreign applied technology and enforcing domestic technology interests against foreign applications

 

Coffee, beer and refreshments will be served at the marketplace where industry demonstrates and exhibit their products and services.

 

16:30 Closing

 

19:00 Gala dinner at Moltkes Palace, presentation of the WEFTA award 2009 

22:00 Live music by the band ’Freak out’, so remember your dancing shoes… 

24:00 End of TAFT2009