Matís
More about the campaign can be found on the Cancer Society's website, www.rabbb.is.
Matís invests heavily in collaboration with foreign parties, both to market Iceland's knowledge in fisheries and agriculture, but also to seek knowledge and capital from abroad to strengthen Icelandic companies. Further information on Matís' international collaboration can be found here.
These days, there are especially many foreign students / employees at Vínlandsleið 12. Matís teaches at the United Nations Fisheries Academy, so there is a lot about the man for lunch. Students and staff come from 16 countries, such as Malaysia, Indonesia, Sri Lanka, China, Vietnam and Ghana, to name a few.
The picture shows employees eating lunch at the company's headquarters at Vínlandsleið.
Further information on the United Nations Fisheries Academy can be found here.
Matís runs an office in Ísafjörður. The main emphasis in Matís 'operations in the Westfjords is the development of production processes in collaboration with companies in the area, general technical advice for Matís' customers in the form of design and technical work. Emphasis is also placed on aquaculture, especially cod farming in the sea, and there is also strong research and development work in good cooperation with companies in the area.
There is a great precondition in this area to look at other factors as well and strengthen them even further. Small-scale food production is one factor that can be strengthened. Matís has for some time now operated Matarsmiðja in Höfn in Hornafjörður, where users learn the correct working methods from the beginning. The facility at Matarsmiðjan in Hornafjörður provides a unique opportunity for innovation in small-scale food production. A number of projects have already been launched in Matarsmiðjan and entrepreneurs from Reykjavík, among others, are coming to product development and small-scale production (more about Matarsmiðjan here).
Other factors such as improved utilization of fresh seafood and biochemical processing from raw materials that would not otherwise be utilized, such as cuttings in fish processing. The market for health products with bioactive substances is huge and has a turnover of hundreds of billions a year worldwide, so there is still a long way to go.
The meeting will take place in the meeting hall of the Development Center, Árnagata 2-4 in Ísafjörður, on Tuesday 5 October at 20. The meeting will be chaired by Daníel Jakobsson, Mayor of Ísafjörður.
The meeting is open to everyone and people are encouraged to attend.
The program in pdf format can be found here.
With this press release, the preparatory committee for MNÍ Food Day 2010, which will be held on Wednesday 27 October at the Hilton Reykjavík Nordica Hotel, reminds the media and others concerned about MNÍ day and encourages good writing and active news coverage on the important issue that will be discussed.
The consumption habits of the Icelandic nation as a whole are of great importance to all of us with their direct impact on health and various lifestyle-related diseases. The Icelandic Food and Nutrition Association (MNÍ, www.mni.is) wants to contribute by dedicating itself to the company's annual conference, Food Day MNÍ, a discussion on nutrition and dietary supplements. The importance of the correct dissemination of information on nutrition and dietary supplements and their scientific background is the main focus of the day, as incorrect information on nutrition can have a detrimental effect on people's health.
The title of this year's conference will be "Is information about nutrition and food supplements misplaced?”
At the conference, Icelandic experts will discuss in a professional way various facts regarding nutrition and dietary supplements based on evidence-based knowledge. The interpretation of research will be discussed, and why individual research, which even goes against accepted scientific knowledge, often has easier access to the media than other research. It will also discuss how information to the public can be misleading and often lead to misunderstandings that are difficult to reverse. The value of various dietary supplements, herbal remedies and natural substances will be discussed and whether their consumption is in fact healthy, who is most at risk of health damage due to the consumption of dietary supplements and which social groups can benefit from them. There will also be a discussion on the control of food supplements, the strong influence of the media and market forces, and on the relationship between health and health claims.
MNÍ hopes that Food Day will be informative for the general public, healthcare professionals as well as anyone involved in advice on diet, nutrition and health.
Fjöregg MNÍ
In connection with Food Day, Fjöregg MNÍ is handed over. Fjöreggið is a great asset, awarded for a commendable initiative in the field of food production and human consumption. The grip is designed and built by Gleri in Bergvík and has been donated by the Confederation of Icelandic Industries since 1993.
An innovation will be tried this year that individuals who have done research in the field of nutrition, herbal medicines, natural substances and dietary supplements are invited to present their results on posters. Interested companies in the food, dietary supplements, herbal medicine and natural chemicals sectors are also invited to present their products at a presentation booth during coffee breaks for a small fee.
From the very beginning, MNÍ's Food Day has been well received by parties working on food, education and training, food production and food control. This year we expect to appeal to an even wider group due to the great health awareness and public interest in various health products and supplements. The program starts at 12: 00-17: 30. Here you can see the programs.
For further information, contact Fríða Rún Þórðardóttir, 898-8798, frida [at] lsh.is
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The Icelandic Food and Nutrition Association
The Icelandic Food and Nutrition Association is a professional association of food scientists, nutritionists, nutrition consultants and other professions with a university degree in related disciplines. The aim of the association is, among other things, to promote the development of food companies and strengthen co-operation with them, promote increased education and the strengthening of scientific research in the field of food and nutrition, work on reforms in the nation's food and seek to influence legislation. The association's website, www.mni.is, is updated regularly and contains event calendars, news and various information, including articles that members have written in the media and presentations from the association's conferences in recent years. The magazine Matur er mannsins minn is also published with in-depth coverage of food, nutrition and the content of Food Day every year. The magazine has been distributed all over the country with Morgunblaðið and will continue to be so this year.
Topics of the previous MNÍ Food Days
1993 Food Production - Quality
1994 Food industry and human consumption
1995 Education for the food industry
1996 Product development and value creation
1997 Food in the New Century
1998 Food and the environment
1999 Offita
2000 Safe foods
2001 Food and politics 2009 Icelandic food production and currency creation
2002 Food Control
2003 Consumer trends
2004 Research
2005 Large kitchen and canteen
2006 Powerful food industry in constant development
2007 Who is responsible for and influences the nation's food choices and nutritional status?
2008 Icelandic food traditions and regional registers
The aim of the conference is to present the work and results of the main parties working to assess pollution in Iceland. Emphasis will be placed on all monitoring and research participants contributing to the conference.
The conference is divided into two parts. Before noon, emphasis will be placed on monitoring environmental pollution in Icelandic nature. After the lunch, there will be presentations of research on pollution in the air, uterus, soil, humans and animals. The arrangement of the conference is that in each section, several presentations from submitted abstracts will be selected, with an emphasis on monitoring on the one hand and research on the other. These presentations provide an overview of the state of affairs in Iceland today. There will also be a strong emphasis on posters where researchers are given the opportunity to present their projects. Conference guests will have the opportunity to familiarize themselves with the various monitoring and research projects on these posters and discuss these projects in person with researchers during coffee breaks and poster presentations.
The deadline for submitting abstracts is 1 December 2010 environ@matis.is. A draft agenda can be found here.
The Planning Committee answers questions
Gunnar Steinn Jónsson Environment Agency, gunnar@ust.is
Hrönn Ólína Jörundsdóttir Matís, hronn.o.jorundsdottir@matis.is
Taru Lehtinen HÍ, tmk2@hi.is
Scientific Committee
Hrund Ólöf Andradóttir, UI
Taru Lehtinen, HÍ
Kristín Ólafsdóttir, UI
Gunnar Steinn Jónsson, Environment Agency (UST)
Hermann Sveinbjörnsson, Ministry for the Environment
Anna Kristín Daníelsdóttir, Matís
Helga Gunnlaugsdóttir, Matís
Hrönn Jörundsdóttir, Matís
The day is dedicated to European scientists and is celebrated in major European cities. The aim of Science Week and related events is to bring science closer to the public, to introduce the people behind the research and to make the public think about the importance of research and scientific work in modern society. Rannís stands for Science Week in Iceland.
The bombing gang and more show up!
Science Week is full of information for people of all ages and this year there will be events in the field, such as the Bomb Gang that comes to the area. At Science Week, scientists from universities, institutions and companies present research projects to the public in a lively and fun way. Guests get to see and test various devices and tools used in research, view the products of projects and chat with the scientists themselves about how to work on science, research and innovation. The family is at the forefront of Science Week and there is an excellent opportunity to introduce the world of science and technology to children and adolescents, but young people are especially welcome at Science Week.
Hopefully, as many people as possible will be able to visit the Reykjavík Art Museum and chat with scientists and see what is on display at Vísindavaka. There is no entrance fee and everyone is welcome. Here an overview of the program and participants can be found.
It lasted for five years and was funded by the 6th Framework Program of the European Union and its participants. The project was carried out by 49 companies, universities and institutions from 27 European countries and was managed by the Institute of Food Research in Norwich in the UK.
The main objective of the project was to harmonize and standardize work on European databases on the chemical content of food. A variety of tools were developed to achieve this goal. These include a standard for the presentation of data, a quality assessment system for data on the chemical content of food, the LanguaL system for defining food types and a coding system for describing the data.
Among the topics in the project was the publication of data on the chemical content of food on the participants' websites. Matís was one of the first to publish the data, but this was done in 2007. Since then, it has been possible to search part of the ÍSGEM database on www.matis.is under Educational Websites - Nutritional Value of Food. In the project, web applications (web services) were developed to search for defined data in the various databases. For example, if we lacked values for vitamin B2 in cells, we could search for the other participants and get values along with a variety of coded information.
The project succeeded in harmonizing databases on the chemical content of food in 25 European countries, including the Icelandic database (ÍSGEM), which is run by Matís. A new registration system was introduced for the ÍSGEM database in 2009 and was designed in accordance with the new requirements of the EuroFIR project. Database harmonization greatly facilitates the transfer of data between countries. The number of food brands in the West now numbers in the tens of thousands and new products are constantly being added. It is too costly to analyze all these products, so it is important to be able to obtain defined data from other countries.
The project set up a specialized database on bioactive substances in plants. The quality of the data was evaluated and information was recorded on the concentration of the substances and their bioactivity. Traditional foods were examined in a special section. Their production was recorded and selected foods were then chemically analyzed. The Icelandic food was skyr, ham, pickled blood butter, delicious shark and dried fish.
Databases on the chemical content of food are constantly evolving due to the new needs of the health sector, the economy and the general public. The databases need to be constantly updated, as the chemical composition of food changes, among other things, with changed recipes and environmental factors.
In order to continue developing the framework for harmonized European databases, an international association based in Belgium (EuroFIR-AISBL) was established. The role of the company is to share expertise and operate an information network for participants in the company. The company has, among other things, taken over the operation of a database for bioactive substances and the operation of web searches for European databases. More information about the EuroFIR project is available at www.eurofir.eu and at Ólafur Reykdal Matís employee.
Sjöfn Sigurgísladóttir, CEO of Matís and professor at the University of Iceland, said at the beginning of the conference that progress and innovation in the fisheries sector can only be ensured through strong research and development work.
An interview with Sjöfn was published in Útvegsblaðið recently and can be found here.
Supervisors were Guðmundur Eggertsson Professor Emeritus and Ólafur S. Andrésson professor. In addition, Dr. Jakob K. Kristjánsson CEO of Arkea, Sigríður H. Þorbjarnardóttir expert at the Institute of Biology and Dr. Ólafur H. Friðjónsson, project manager at Matís.
Opponents are Daniel Prieur, Professor at the Université de Bretagne Occidentale in Brest, France and Dr. Valgerður Andrésdóttir, scientist at the University of Iceland Laboratory of Pathology at Keldur.
Snædís was born in 1973. She has worked at the Institute of Biology, at Prokaria and as a specialist at Matís 'Department of Biotechnology and Biochemistry since 2007. Snædís' research focused on the development of methods to genetically modify the thermophilic bacterium. Rhodothermus marinus. Snædís 'husband is Ægir Þór Þórsson, a horticultural consultant at the Icelandic Farmers' Association.
Vice President of the Faculty of Life and Environmental Sciences, Karl Benediktsson professor, presides over the ceremony requested The main hall of the main building and starts at 13:00.
Abstract
Rhodothermus marinus is an aerobic, thermophilic bacterium that was first isolated from underwater hot springs at Ísafjarðardjúp. The species is interesting, partly because of its position in the bacterial classification system and because of its adaptation to its natural environment. In addition produces R. marinus a large collection of heat-resistant enzymes that can be used in industry. These include enzymes that break down polysaccharides and biomass. Here's another one Rhodothermus type described. It was isolated from a depth of 2634 m in the Pacific Ocean and was named R. profundi.
The main objective of this project was the development of methods for genetic modification R. marinus. A method was invented to transfer foreign genes into the bacterium. Two options were used, trpB and purA, but they list for enzymes involved in the synthesis of tryptophan and adenine. R. marinus a strain that did not appear to have curvature activity was selected for genetic uptake. Both trpB and purA were removed from the chromosome of the receiving strain and therefore both substitutes can be selected. The precipitates prevent rearrangement between the valgenes and the chromosome and the formation of spontaneous Trp+ and Ade+ reversals.
A small plexiglass, pRM21, was isolated from R. marinus and sequentially. It consists of 2935 base pairs and its largest reading frame records for proteins that correspond to the replication proteins of large plasmids of the IncW family. The plasmid was used in genetic engineering experiments. A good transformation was obtained by electrolyzing the bacterium. The plasmid was also used as a basis for the construction of shuttle boats that replicate both R. marinus and Escherichia coli. Ferries were constructed for the expression of foreign genes in R. marinus and increased protein production was obtained by using thermodynamic control sequences. Vices that also make it possible to study expression were also found R. marinus and its stewards.
Methods for inactivating genes in the genome were developed R. marinus, both by random and targeted mutations. Genes were deleted from the bacterium chromosome without leaving any foreign sequences. Chromosome genes were also successfully replaced by double rearrangement by linear molecules. Induction of genetic modification R. marinus opens up the possibility of research into its properties as well as utilization. Such methods are even more important now than before since the sequencing of the genome R. marinus was recently published.
Starts: 27/09/2010 - 13:00
Location: Main building
Further location: Celebration hall
The experiment took place in March 2010 as part of the European project Chill on (EU FP6-016333-2) and the Icelandic project Hermun kæliferla, which is funded by the AVS Fisheries Research Fund, the Rannís Technology Development Fund and the University of Iceland Research Fund.
The aim of the experiments was, among other things, to investigate how well two types of foam boxes protect cod neck pieces from a typical heat load in an air transport chain from a producer in northern Iceland to a buyer in Europe. Temperature measurements, sensory evaluation, chemical and microbial measurements were used to compare the foam boxes and examine the importance of the location of fillet pieces within the box (corner and center).
The new foam box, designed with the FLUENT heat transfer model, proved to be better than the older box in terms of thermal insulation. The temperature load on the first day of the experiment caused the highest product temperature in the corners to rise to 5.4 ° C in the older model but only to 4.5 ° C in the new model. The difference between the highest product temperature in the middle and the corners of the box was about 2 to 3 ° C.
Sensory evaluation showed that storage in the new foam box led to two to three days longer freshness period and one to two days longer shelf life for storage in the older foam box.
Position within the box (angle and center) did not significantly affect sensory evaluation results and there was only a small difference between placements in TVB-N and TMA measurements.
Promens Tempra ehf. (http://www.tempra.is) has already started production of the new foam box.
The report can be found here: http://www.matis.is/media/matis/utgafa/29-10-Effect-of-improved-design-of-wholesale.pdf
For further information, please contact Björn Margeirsson, mechanical engineer and doctoral student at the University of Iceland and Matís (bjornm@matis.is).