The Nano4Food Conference will open its doors next week and it has already attracted some of the largest food manufacturers in the world, along with leading research institutes and chemical and biotech companies.
Take a look at the list of participating companies:
General Mills USA Buhler AG Switzerland BASF Germany Unilever R&D Vlaardingen The Netherlands European Commission Belgium Bio-Sense Belgium Enterprise Ireland Ireland AZTI Spain Biomade Technology Foundation The Netherlands Plant Research International The Netherlands NSF International Belgium Joanneum Research Austria Sud-Chemie AG Germany Matforsk AS Norwegian Food Research Institute Norway Portland State University USA Schuttelaar & Partners The Netherlands Teagasc Moorepark Ireland The Mochtar Riady Center for Nanotechnology Indonesia ETC United Kingdom Singapore EDB Singapore Center for NanoBiotechnology & Bioenginneering Austria Wageningen University and Research Centre The Netherlands Canadian Food Inspection Agency Canada MicroNeo Technical University Delft The Netherlands Federal Institute of Risk Assessment Germany Universitat Gallen Switzerland Bitfaction Germany Scuola Santa’Anna Italy Corporate Watch United Kingdom Nano Tsunami The Netherlands VMT Magazine The Netherlands Swiss Reinsurance Company Switzerland Centro Nacional de Microelectrónica Spain
The markets of nanotechnology in food may not be a US $7.0 billion market in 2006 or a a US$ 20.4 billion market in 2010 as some have outlandishly claimed, leading one of our readers to comment on the authors of the report..
Nonetheless food manufacturers are taking very seriously the uses they may be able to get from applying nanotechnologies to their processes. Nano4Food promises to show how serious it really it is.