Mission statement
The Institute of Food and Environmental Research (ILU) is a nonprofit research institution with 20 years of expertise in the areas of food processing, environmental research and biotechnology.
The activity profile of ILU e.V includes scientific and technological application-oriented research:
- Research and developmantof new methods for food and feed/pet-food production
- Exploration of functional food ingredients
- Food safety
- Environmental contaminants
- Plant protection and treatment agents
- Mycotoxins
- Changes of food during processing
- Anti- nutritional components
- Allergenic effects
- Processing of plant materials and leguminosae-derived products
- By innovative dry methods for refining
- Hydrothermal transformations, extrusions and co-extrusion techniques
- Novel process and product development (customer oriented)
- Development of analytical methods
- Biological and chemical special analyses
- Biotechnology research for the production of biological agents for food, feed, cosmetics and pharmaceuticals
- Development of natiural feeds
- Environmental research with phototrophic microorganisms
- Development of biogenic materials for non-food applications
- Process and product development
- ecological building materials
- Soil improvement and erosion protection materials
- Plastic composite materials, binders, filling materials