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European Hygienic Engineering & Design Group

© 2016 EHEDG / Gerhard Schleining,

Marija Zunabovic-Pichler

EHEDG Plenary Meeting, 1 November 2016 in Herning/Denmark

EHEDG AUSTRIA





…„Key Department“at BOKU in the area of Food, among 15 Departments

…2 Institutes with synergistic working potential andspecialized expertise

…Thematical focus: - Technology, Biotechnology, Process Engineering - Quality and Safety of Food- Interactions „Food – Consumer“

DFST in a Nutshell: Relevance





DFST: Structure and Position

CD-LABOR „CEREVAL“





EHEDG AUSTRIA

6.500 m2 (Laboratory, pilot plant, offices)





EHEDG Regional Section AUSTRIA

• Meetings with possible new partners: Infoworkshop

• Annual meeting

• Website establishment

• Development of dissemination materials

• Implementation into ongoing projects “e.g. meat recontamination”

Outlook and Planning for 2017

Acquisition of new members in Austria;

currently we have 12 members from institutions, retail, equipment supplier,

food producers

Upcoming events and activity planning:





In the international master programme “safety in the food chain”

(http://www.safetyinthefoodchain.com/) there is a course

available on “cleaning validation and hygienic design” (3ECTS)

Ongoing “hygienic design seminar series” with 10 companies

ongoing and should start at the end of year.

2017: QUALITY AUSTRIA Flexseminars: Hygienic Design,

Cleaning and Cleaning Validation

(http://www.qualityaustria.com)

Training courses, education and/or events on hygienic design

http://www.safetyinthefoodchain.com/

http://www.qualityaustria.com/





Transmission electron microscopy (TEM) micrographs of pulsed-light exposed L. monocytogenes Li-P69 cells treated with 2.6 J cm-2 for5 s. Scale bar equals 1 μm (A,B) and 500 nm (C). Arrows indicate irreversible damage to bacterial cells, melting structures, and ghost cells (empty envelope structures).

Implementation of project results and ongoing projects at BOKU

• Recontamination factors in meat processing: focus heat treatedmeat products (9 meat processors as partners)

• Pulsed light treatment of food and food-contact surfaces• Listeria monocytogenes in food processing

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