Acronym DECONTAM
Category
Marine Biotechnology
Title Decontamination of persistent organic pollutants in fishmeal and fish oil Programme National Programme
Instrument (FP6)
Contact Type (FP7)
Strand (Interreg)
NA
Theme (FP7)
Activity Area (FP6)
Regional Area (Interreg)
Action (COST)
NA
Specific Programme (FP7)
NA
Funding source National Coordinator Age Oterhals Coordinator email aage.oterhals@nofima.no
Coordinator institution
NOFIMA - Norwegian Institute of Food, Fisheries and Aquaculture Research (Norway)
Institutions involved
UiB - University of Bergen (Norway) ,
Start year 2007 End year 2011 Funding (€) € 364,000 Website https://prosjektbanken.forskningsradet.no/en/project/FORISS/178969?Kilde=FORISS&distribution=Ar&chart=bar&calcType=funding&Sprak=no&sortBy=date&sortOrder=desc&resultCount=30&offset=180&TemaEmne.1=LTP2+Fornyelse+i+offentlig+sektor Summary Fishmeal and fish oil are the most heavily contaminated materials used in feed production, with products of European fish stocks more heavily contaminated than those from South Pacific stocks. The fish stock of concern for the north European industry is sprat and herring in the Baltic Sea and herring, sprat, sand eel and blue whiting in the North Sea. This difference in dioxin and PCB levels are reflecting the general pollution level in the respective fishing areas and will disfavour the North European fishmeal and oil producers on the world market. The legislation levels were revised in November 2005 to include dioxin-like PCBs. Consideration will be given by 31 December 2008 to significantly reduce the maximum levels. The new levels shall be determined based on the technical possibilities of the most effective, economical viable decontamination procedure. To improve and reinforce the competitiveness of the European industry there is a need for development of new and cost effective decontamination solutions.
Goal:
To explore the use of a novel oil extraction process to reduce the persistent organic pollutants in fishmeal Sub-goals: (1) To optimize the process conditions used during the oil extraction step; (2) Testing and modelling of the oil extraction process; (3) To evaluate the impact on fishmeal and fish oil composition and oxidative stability; (4) To study the efficiency of short path distillation as a decontamination process for fish oil in general and after use in the oil extraction process; (5) To publish a reference PhD thesis on decontamination of fishmeal and fish oil; (6) Establish the scientific knowledge needed for up-scaling and evaluation of the industrial use of the new integrated fishmeal and fish oil decontamination process.
Keywords
Toxic substances;
Animal feed;
Herring;
Animal welfare;
Fish;
Bioproduct;
Sprat;
Blue whiting;
Bioprospecting;
Human health;
Marine Region
76
Not associated to marine areas
0
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