Food manufacturers may be able to in future turn their rubbish into safe, value-added products for use in medicines and health supplements, thanks to new technology from the University of Western Sydney (UWS) and Food Science Australia.
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The technology separates and purifies nutrients in manufacturing waste, offering food businesses the potential to generate millions of dollars from their waste. Each year the Australian food manufacturing industry alone wastes billions of litres of potentially valuable material which contains vitamins and minerals previously too difficult or expensive to recover.
The process works by fractionation of the waste in four stages – using ion exchange, nanofiltration, chromatography and crystallisation – to isolate the useful ‘fractions’ which can be used as product ingredients.
