Research

Areas of Expertise

• Food Innovation Lab for Enterprise (Lead PI: Dr C Barry-Ryan)
  • New Food & Beverage Development: Idea generation right through to product launch, including concept and prototype generation and scale up.
  • Food & Beverage Production & Optimisation: Processing and optimisation of cereal, meat and poultry, dairy, beverages and prepared food products. 
• Scientific & Technological Food & Drink Research (Lead PI: Dr G O’Neill)
  • Packaging innovation, novel ingredients, antimicrobials and technologies, shelf-life extension, new technologies, food enhancements, formulations, reformulations, nutraceuticals, .
  • Food & Beverage Analysis: Shelf-life assessment, sensory analysis and consumer evaluation, ingredients and formulation, quality and nutritional characteristics, food safety and allergen management.
• Health Research, Regulation & Policy, food safety (Lead PI: Dr M C Leva)
  • Health, human factors and quality assurance
• Waste valorisation & bioeconomy (Lead PI: Dr M Giltrap)
• Education & Training (Lead PI: Dr G Kinsella)