Protective and Probiotic Cultures

Agricultural University of Athens, Greece

• Protective & Probiotic Cultures

Corvinus Unersity of Budapest, Hungary

• Application of selected lactic acid bacteria, probiotic and protective cultures for dairy product development

EBTE Consultants, Greece

• Advice on cleaning and disinfection programs
• Planning and training for Good Hygiene Practice implementation
• Decision support for hygienic design and evaluation for food processing establishments
• Consultancy on Good Hygiene Practice and training

Max Rubner Institute (previous federal research Centre for Nutrition and Food) Karlsruhe

• Protective and probiotic cultures
• Development of novel multifunctional starter cultures
• Testing for probiotic activity
• Use of bacteriocin producing strains in food fermentations
• Model food fermentations and pathogen challenge studies
• Cell culture and immunologic interactions
• Safety investigations, especially detection and characterisation of antibiotic resistances

University of Bologna, Italy

• Protective cultures in fermented pork or poultry sausages
• Protective cultures in poultry products
• Probiotic culture in sheep milk yoghurt
• Feed: probiotic culture for poultry

University of Udine/Torino, Italy

• Study of fermentation dynamics
• Validation of starter cultures
• Use of bacteriocin-producing strains in food fermentations

Vermicon AG, Germany 

• Development of specific gene probes for probiotic cultures
• Routine quality control of starter cultures (viabiliy and integrity)