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FSB1 – 2004<br />

Food Science and Biotechnology in Developing Countries<br />

Country/state Quantity and waste type<br />

Portugal (1994) [8] 14,000 t/a tomato pomace<br />

Jordan (1999) [9] 36,000 t/a olive pomace<br />

Malaysia (1996) [10]<br />

palm oil production<br />

2,520,000 t/a palm mesocarp fiber<br />

1,440,000 t/a oil palm shells<br />

4,140,000 t/a empty fruit bunches<br />

Australia (1995) [11] 400,000 t/a pineapple peel<br />

USA<br />

300,000 t/a grape pomace in California only (1994) [12]<br />

9,525 t/a cranberry pomace (1998) [13]<br />

200,000 t/a almond shells (1997) [14]<br />

3,300,000 t/a orange peel in Florida (1994) [15]<br />

In the last decade the interest in the alternative use of waste streams beyond disposal or fertilization<br />

has increased drastically. Further to rising disposal costs the economic interest has appeared as well.<br />

All of these raw materials contain considerable amounts of valuable substances like sugars, oils, fibers<br />

or polyphenols. Yet, they are either wasted or used at low technological and economical levels, e.g. in<br />

animal feeding or fiberboard production [16][17].<br />

During the last years it has been of interest to develop new processes to use these valuable<br />

substances contained in the residual matter. These raw material streams can now be reintegrated into<br />

the chain of food production, in contrast to ordinary food manufacturing which excludes these material<br />

streams from the production process. Laufenberg et al. [18][19] have designed a sustainability concept<br />

which aims to convert the raw material stream into a new product and/or ingredient.<br />

Raw<br />

material<br />

Prime<br />

processing<br />

Pre<br />

processing<br />

Residual<br />

matter<br />

Food<br />

Ingredient<br />

Intermediate<br />

product<br />

Adaptation<br />

processing<br />

Figure 1 The holistic approach to food processing - the synchronization hexagon [18][19]<br />

Treating residual matter in a three-step process and employing pre-, prime-, and adaptation<br />

processing adds value to the waste as well benefit ecology. This holistic approach to food processing<br />

is presented schematically in Figure 1 , the strategy of the sustainability concept in Figure 2. Starting

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