✨ Research Funding Priorities
NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE, No. 163
6 DECEMBER 2013
2. Enabling Technologies
Investment priority: Improving the competitive advantage of existing export goods and services, and New value-add export goods and services
Research question
How can we improve the returns from New Zealand’s primary raw materials through post-harvest food and fibre processing, with a focus on all of the following:
Indicative funding
(excl GST)
$1.5 – 3.0 million per annum
for up to six years.
a) processes new to, or currently in limited use in, New Zealand industry including but not limited to unit operations* such as high-pressure processing or ultrasonics; and
b) significant improvements to existing and widely used unit operations, eg drying or freezing; and
c) building a comprehensive and integrated set of processing capability that can be accessed by New Zealand industry?
A unit operation is a basic step in a process. Unit operations involve bringing about a physical change such as reaction, separation, crystallisation, evaporation, filtration etc. A process may have many unit operations.
Investment priority: Protection and risk management
Research question
How can food safety be improved through new or improved diagnostics, with a focus on all of the following:
Indicative funding
(excl GST)
$1.5 – 3.0 million per annum
for up to six years.
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improved performance (eg cover a wider range of contaminants, improved accuracy or improved specificity); and
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lower cost to implement and to use; and
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provide reliable, accurate and precise results faster than current methods; and
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lead to improved compliance; and
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be accepted by regulatory authorities?
Including, but not limited to:
- existing or potential chemical, microbiological, radiological, or physical contaminants, or
- techniques such as food fingerprinting and predictive scanning to validate authenticity and purity, or
- emerging food safety issues.
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🌾 Enabling Technologies Research Funding Priorities
🌾 Primary Industries & ResourcesEnabling Technologies, Research Funding, Primary Industries, Post-Harvest Processing, Food Safety, Export Goods