Next conferences participated by PPM
i-SUP 2010 Innovation for sustainable production, April 18-21, 2010, Bruges, Belgium
101st AOCS Annual Meeting & Expo, May 16-18, 2010, Phoenix, Arizona, USA
2010 Canola Workshop: Trends in Value Added Processing, June 17-18, 2010, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
8th Euro Fed Lipid Congress, November 21-24, 2010, Munich, Germany
PPM is SynRg® partner
A cluster of 17 partners will explore the recycling of vegetable raw materials along the complete value chain.
R&D project on 3-MCPD-FE has launched
In December 2007 the prescence of 3-MCPD-FE was proven in refined vegetable oils in different concentrations (0.1 mg/kg to 4 mg/kg) by the CVUA-Stuttgart. This finding is significant due to the fact that the Joint FAO/WHO Expert Committee on Food Additives (JECFA) defined a tolerable daily intake (TDI) of 2 µg/kg BW/day for free 3-MCPD in 2001 because of a carcinogenic effect in animal studies. Until now, the Bundesinstitut für Risikobewertung (BfR) assumes that 3-MCPD-FE is completely decomposed in vivo to free 3-MCPD and therefore the assessment for free 3-MCPD has to be adopted for the esterified analogues.
Results of research so far show that especially the refining process of fats and oils, and particularly deodorisation is critical for the formation of 3-MCDP-FE. The objective of the project is to clarify the relations between the formation of 3-MCPD-FE, the composition of the components involved in the process as well as the conditions of the process, and to deduce from these results some minimisation strategies. Additionally, it will be tested to which extend a reduction of the amount of 3-MCPD-FE in refined oils may be possible by treatment with suitable adsorbents.