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SARDI Food Technology

Program – key priorities

and projects

Tom Madigan9/2/17

• Core funding from Primary Industries and Regions South Australia

• Key initiative

• Aimed to address profitability

• Address two of the State’s economic priorities:

Premium Food and Wine Exported to the World

Growth through Innovation

Provide practical, industry-focused solutions for food businesses

Food Technology Service

Food Technology Program

Shelf-life and packaging

Food technologist Food technologist

Waite Facilities• Product development kitchen

• Small scale processing equipment

• Cool rooms

• Sensory laboratory

• Micro laboratory

• General purpose laboratory

Food Technology Program

• Work with businesses free of charge on minor issues

and advice

– Site visits

– Advice on ingredients

– Adjust composition

• Complex research needs scoped and

recommendations made

• Work together to achieve funding

• Fee-for-service

A generic example

– Refinement of ingredients

– Develop prototype products

– Consumer assessment to confirm appeal

– Packaging

– Assessing shelf-life (safety and quality)

– Nutritional panels and labelling

– Labelling for product appeal

“Rich in flavour, sweet, acidic with fruity tones”

How can we help?

Work on funded projects

• Participate in Advanced Food Manufacturing Grants

Program:

– Informing development of a frozen pizza range

– Frozen value-added oysters

– Long-shelf life value-added mussel products

– Lactose free functional cheese product

– High value honey product for China

• Current projects

– Value-added mushroom products

– Sensory assessment of vegetable products

Functional Food Demonstration Projects

“Functional foods and beverages are foods that

provide an extra health benefit to the consumer

beyond basic nutrition”

• Foods fortified with beneficial nutrients

• Vitamin enriched, fatty acid enriched

• Free from foods

• Gluten free, lactose free

• Biofortification

• Livestock fed specialty diets

Functional Food Demonstration Projects

• Market growth in functional products

– Functional food/beverage (CAGR of 7.5% 2014-20)

– Functional ingredients

• Limited SA manufacturers of functional

products

• Opportunity identified to assist industry

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What were the objectives?

• Undertake a number of rapid case studies to:

– Identify how government can best assist industry

– Develop at least one functional food product

– Utilise expertise within PIRSA, SARDI and Food SA

– Build capacity and capability in the development

of functional foods/beverages

Feed/fertilizers Livestock/Crops Food Processors Retail

Functional ingredient

What did we do?

Application Process

• Request for Expressions of Interest

• Review and shortlist applications

• Nutritional advice, potential claims and market potential

Businesses involved

Product Development

• Technical assistance (ingredient selection & product formulation)

• Product assessment (NIPs), Sensory assessment (consumer panel)

• Advise on potential claims

What products were developed?

– Two vitamin and mineral

enriched breads

– Extended range to follow

– A vitamin and mineral

enriched multifibre

cracker base

– Product range to follow

– Reduced salt take-home

meal

– Vitamin enriched purple

wheat noodles

Key considerations

• Concept functional products could be developed rapidly – a successful model.

• Accessibility and suitability of functional ingredients– Limited number of suppliers and supply

– Most vitamins and minerals are imported

• Early consultation is vital– Commercial feasibility, regulatory compliance, scope of

claims

• Achieving health claims– Only ‘healthy products’ can make health claims – must

meet Nutrient Profiling Scoring Criterion

Current Activity

• Due to the success of the earlier work, a new

initiative is currently being advanced:

“Fast Track Functional Food Program”

– Expression of interest soon to be called

– Utilising a similar model to the demonstration

projects

– Industry ready with ideas for functional foods that

need assistance. Focus on products with

commercial potential.

Acknowledgements

• Limestone Coast RDA

• AusIndustry

• PIRSA

• 6 minutes talking on FT program

• Other projects – two minutes

• Functional foods 5 minutes

• 2 minutes about new projects

Restrictions in the Code

• Standard 1.2.7 – Nutrition, Health and Related

Claims

– Nutrition Content Claims

• Presence/absence of certain

nutritional properties

– High or General Level Health Claims

• Require a food-health relationship

• Pre-approved (general level, high level)

• Systematic review (general level)

• Changes to the Code