Food safety and security are at the heart of both the competitiveness in food industry and the challenge of feeding a growing and safety-demanding population. We are committed with these challenges, performing research and development in different fields intended to enhance quality and nutritional value, durability and risk control in food and feed. Besides, complementing the nutritional and safety issues, additional functional attributes have come into play when it comes to the relationship between food and health, and we are already partnering with food industry performing research towards the achievement of health claims.
Inbiotec: Instituto de biotecnología de León
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Affordable, Quality & Healthy Food
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Food & feed additives
Microorganisms, aside from key ingredients in the manufacturing processes of several foods, are factories of a broad diversity of additives, such as vitamins, pigments, amino acids, preservatives or probiotics.
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Food quality & safety
We engage with food and feed industry in the development of tools that improve process control when it comes to biological and toxicological hazards.
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Health claims in functional food
Stringent regulations are in place when it comes to food labels containing health claims. Since 2011, we partner with food companies applying our in-vitro and in-vivo models in order to assess safety and efficacy of novel functional ingredients and foods.
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- 2016 Barreiro C*, Ullán RV. DNA-synthesizing enzymes as antibacterial targets (Chapter 4). 2016. In: New weapons to control bacterial growth. Editor: Tomás G. Villa y Miguel Viñas. Springer International Publishing. Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-28366-1. (*Corresponding author).
- 2016 Ullán RV, Barreiro C. Bacterial protease as targets to control bacterial growth (Capítulo 6). 2016. En: New weapons to control bacterial growth. Editor: Tomás G. Villa y Miguel Viñas. Editorial: Springer International Publishing. Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-28366-1.
- 2015 Cruz Z., García-Estrada C., Olabarrieta I., Rainieri S. (2015) Lipid Nanoparticles: Delivery System for Bioactive Food Compounds. In Microencapsulation and Microspheres for Food Applications (ed. L. Sagis). ELSEVIER Ltd, UK, pp. 313-332. ISBN: 978-0-12-800350-3.
- 2015 Barreiro C (Ed, preface). New trends in Corynebacterium glutamicum: beyond the amino acids. 2015. , Nova Science Publishers (New York, USA). ISBN: 978-1-63483-280-9.
- 2015 Barreiro C. Methods in Proteomics applied to Corynebacterium glutamicum. 2015., New trends in Corynebacterium glutamicum: beyond the amino acids.Nova Science Publishers (New York, USA). ISBN: 978-1-63483-280-9.
- 2015 Pérez-Redondo, R.; Sola-Landa, A. & Rodríguez-García, A.Barreiro, C., ed., (2015), New Trends in Corynebacterium glutamicum: Beyond the Amino Acids., Nova Science Publishers, New York, chapter Chapter 2: Deciphering the Dynamic Transcriptome Employing Microarrays., pp. 13–44. (Book chapter)
- 2014 GARCÍA-ESTRADA C., MARTÍN J.F. (2014) Penicillins. In Biosynthesis and Molecular Genetics of Fungal Secondary Metabolites Vol. I (eds. C. García-Estrada, S Zeilinger and J.F. Martín). Springer US, New York, NY 10013, USA., pp. 17-42. ISBN 978-1-4939-1190-5.
- 2012 Rodríguez-García, A.Alejandre, A. P., ed., (2012), Aplicación de la Biotecnología en la Ciencia Veterinaria, International Marketing and Communication SA, chapter Aplicaciones de la tecnologГa de microarrays o micromatrices, pp. 237–251.
- 2012 BARREIRO C., GARCÍA-ESTRADA C., MARTÍN J.F. (2012) Proteomics Methodology Applied to the Analysis of Filamentous Fungi – New Trends for an Impressive Diverse Group of Organisms. In Applications of Tandem mass Spectrometry (Ed. J. Prasain and G. L. Harn). Intech-Open Access Publisher, Rijeka, Croatia., pp. 127-160. ISBN: 978-953-307-870-0.
- 2011 ALBILLOS S.M., GARCÍA-ESTRADA C., MARTÍN J.F. (2011) Spanish blue cheeses: functional metabolites. In Cheese; Types, Nutrition and Consumption (ed. Frank Columbus). Nova Science Publishers, Inc. Hauppauge, NY. pp. 89-104. ISBN: 978-1-61209-828-9.