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27th February 2013

Commercial future for Model Gut

The Dynamic Gastric Model, developed from years of research at the Institute of Food Research, has taken significant steps towards improving its commercial use by food and drug companies worldwide. IFR and the technology management company Plant Bioscience Limited (PBL) have secured funding from...

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21st February 2013

Research Leader Positions

The closing date for applications for these Research Leader positions has now passed. Current opportunities at IFR are advertised here The Institute of Food Research (IFR) is a world leading research institution in the area of food, diet and health . It is at...

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13th February 2013

Food Structure in the Gastrointestinal Tract

Professor Pete Wilde explains the aims of his research ‘Food Structure in the Gastrointestinal Tract’. The theme is part of the ‘Food and Health research programme’ at IFR and focuses on how complex food structures behave in the gastrointestinal tract, how they affect digestion...

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11th February 2013

Securing the future supply of food: challenges and opportunities. The 2013 IFST Spring Conference

  Securing the future supply of food is a major challenge facing the food industry. How can we ensure that the food chain continues to supply, safe healthy food to the consumer in a sustainable manner, as population grows and resources become scarcer? This...

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30th January 2013

Video introduction to the IFR’s Food and Health research programme

Food is of fundamental importance to our health, and understanding exactly how foods keep us healthy is the overarching aim of the Food and Health strategic programme at the Institute of Food Research. In this video, Professor Richard Mithen gives an overview of this...

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29th January 2013

The need to feed programmes Campylobacter’s ‘Sat Nav’

A rumbling tummy is our body’s way of telling us “it’s time for lunch”. Likewise, bacteria need to know when it’s time to eat. Researchers at the Institute of Food Research on the Norwich Research Park have uncovered how the food-borne bacterial pathogen Campylobacter...

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18th January 2013

IFR supporting NutraFormulate Conference

IFR is pleased to support NutraFormulate – Ingredients for Healthy Living, which will be held at the NMM Exhibition Centre, Birmingham, 20-21  March 2013. Richard Mithen and Paul Kroon from the Institute of Food Research will be speaking at NutraFormulate – Ingredients for Healthy Living...

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16th January 2013

Foodborne illness by Campylobacter: little known, but very common.

Dr Arnoud van Vliet leads the Campylobacter research group at the Institute of Food Research. He recently spoke to the  BBC Radio 4 programme ‘Face the Facts’ about Campylobacter and efforts to understand and control it.  Here he blogs about Campylobacter, and will be...

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14th January 2013

What are we doing about food waste?

As highlighted by a recent report from the Institute of Mechanical Engineers, as a global community we waste up to half of the food that we produce. It’s clear that as world population grows and resources become scarcer, we need to address this to ensure...

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7th January 2013

Science + Innovation: Winter 2012/2013 edition

The latest edition of IFR’s newsletter “Science + Innovation” has just been published, bringing together the latest news from IFR. View the lastest edition Subscribe to IFR’s newsletter

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