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We put world-class research, technology and infrastructure at your service - but not on your balance sheet!
CSIRO Food and Nutritional Sciences has the most comprehensive food research and development facilities in Australia. Among the best in the world, our facilities include new purpose-built laboratories, sensory analysis units, pilot scale manufacturing systems, with modern instrumentation for physical, microbiological, and chemical evaluation of food materials. With CSIRO Food and Nutritional Sciences as a partner, you can reduce your investment in equipment and plant.
We offer confidential, personalised results - a priority at CSIRO Food and Nutritional Sciences
Your work is confidential. Our systems, buildings and procedures are designed to deliver a high level of security for your project activities and outcomes.
Project budgets are agreed in advance and timelines specified. If intellectual property is created as a result, ownership is shared according to the contribution of resources. So if you pay for all the work, you own all the IP.
Our research
We offer:
Food Science for Health and Vitality to:
- Enhance and improve the community's health and vitality
- Assist food businesses to access opportunities in the functional food sector
- Help the food industry bring foods with substantiated health benefits to market
- Assist in lowering public health costs
- Aid food businesses in adding value to their primary by-product and waste streams.
Quality Products through Processing Innovation to:
- Deliver food processing solutions for every stage of the business system
- Improve manufacturing efficiencies
- Foster Australia's reputation as a global provider of quality food products
- Develop packaging materials that enhance the marketability of products
- Address emerging consumer demands for novel foods.
Science for a Safe and Secure Food Supply to:
- Help protect the community from food safety hazards
- Anticipate and communicate emerging food safety threats
- Develop new food processes and management tools that deliver safer and fresher foods
- Help foster a regulatory system based on assessment of public health risk and quality science.
Our core capabilities
- Extracting and separating bioactive ingredients from food processing streams
- Encapsulating functional ingredients
- Delivering bioactive ingredients to targeted sites in the gastrointestinal tract
- Microbe and plant-mediated biocatalysis
- New food processing systems and ingredients
- Food quality
- New food safety management techniques

