MRI - Department of Safety and Quality of Cereals (MRI-GE)
The scientific interests of the department aim at providing the population with high-quality and safe food based on cereals, potatoes, oilseeds and other oil plants, pseudocereals and legumes taking into consideration the multiplicity of safety and quality aspects which are the final result of raw characteristics, production, harvest, storage, processing and marketing.
Parent institution:
Max Rubner-Institut - Federal Research Institute of Nutrition and Food (MRI) Details of MRI
Address
MRI - Department of Safety and Quality of Cereals (MRI-GE)
Schützenberg 12
32756 Detmold
North Rhine-Westphalia
Phone: +49 (0)5231 - 741-0
Fax: +49 (0)5231 - 741-100
email: meinolf.lindhauer(@)mri.bund.de
Activities:
- Research
Focus of Research:
- Assessment of the sensoric and safety related quality of ready to eat foodstuff
- Cereals and potatoes: Yearly evaluation of the so-called “quality assessment”, i.e. assessment of the processing suitability of cereal and potato breeding lines within the official variety releasing process of the Federal Office of Plant Varieties.
- Cereals: Annual assessment of the processing quality and of the mycotoxin, heavy metal and pesticide residues status of the German bread cereals in the framework of the so-called BEE (Special Determination of Harvest and Quality Data), a task based on the
- Characterisation of raw quality in respect of the * processing suitability * availability of nutritionally value adding constituents (e.g. dietary fibres, essential fatty acids) * naturally occurring (mycotoxins, heavy metals) or production
- Development and standardization of analytical methods (DIN, CEN, ISO, ICC, AACCI, ASU § 64 LFBG)
- Fats and oil: Application of plant-, animal- and microbial-derived enzymes as bio catalysts
- Optimization of the processing technology to preserve and to induce nutritionally value adding and to avoid or minimize undesired compounds (Maillard reaction products, artefacts of refining, contaminants) during the production of raw material specific fo
- Preservation of value adding and avoidance of undesired constituents, respectively, during raw material storage
- Solation and/or enrichment of nutritionally relevant constituents and – in cooperation with research partners – characterization of their health improving and diseasesavoiding functionality
Coordinated projects
- 3-MCPD Formation / Prevention: Investigations on the formation of 3-monochloropropane-1 ,2-diol-fatty acid esters (3-MCPD-FE) in vegetable oils, and developing strategies to minimize those Details of 3-MCPD Formation / Prevention: Investigations on the formation of 3-monochloropropane-1 ,2-diol-fatty acid esters (3-MCPD-FE) in vegetable oils, and developing strategies to minimize those
- Breeding of Varieties of Mono- und Diccocum-Wheat (Einkorn und Emmer) Details of Breeding of Varieties of Mono- und Diccocum-Wheat (Einkorn und Emmer)
- Characterisation of cereal grain from organic and conventional farming – application of protein profiling techniques and analysis of individual compounds Details of Characterisation of cereal grain from organic and conventional farming – application of protein profiling techniques and analysis of individual compounds
- Collaborative project: Nitrogen fertilizer reduction in winter wheat by improved prognosis of baking quality - subproject 2 Details of Collaborative project: Nitrogen fertilizer reduction in winter wheat by improved prognosis of baking quality - subproject 2
- Determination of undesired compounds in by-products of the milling industry Details of Determination of undesired compounds in by-products of the milling industry
- Developing a guideline for cultivation and processing of organic spelt Details of Developing a guideline for cultivation and processing of organic spelt
- Development and use recommendations of selected methods for distinguishing between organic and conventional products Details of Development and use recommendations of selected methods for distinguishing between organic and conventional products
- Development of instrumental analytical screening method for a more objective reporting on the residue situation of cereals and cereal products, quantitative GC-MS and LC-MS/MS provisions Measurement acquisition of multi-dimensional data fields, introduction of exploratory data analysis, deconvolution, building databases for evaluation of screening studies Details of Development of instrumental analytical screening method for a more objective reporting on the residue situation of cereals and cereal products, quantitative GC-MS and LC-MS/MS provisions Measurement acquisition of multi-dimensional data fields, introduction of exploratory data analysis, deconvolution, building databases for evaluation of screening studies
- Evaluation of Technological Changes of stored Organic Corn with Relevance to the Quality of Organic Food Details of Evaluation of Technological Changes of stored Organic Corn with Relevance to the Quality of Organic Food
- Optimization of ecological potato growing with respect to processing Details of Optimization of ecological potato growing with respect to processing
- Sensitive determination of mycotoxins with modulated fluorescence polarisation Details of Sensitive determination of mycotoxins with modulated fluorescence polarisation
- Studies on prebiotic properties and chemopreventive potential of dietary fiber enriched bakery products and bakery products Details of Studies on prebiotic properties and chemopreventive potential of dietary fiber enriched bakery products and bakery products
- Study of the health-promoting potential of pentosans of wheat bran for the development of a new value-added use Details of Study of the health-promoting potential of pentosans of wheat bran for the development of a new value-added use
Involved in research projects:
- Collaborative project: Nitrogen fertilizer reduction in winter wheat by improved prognosis of baking quality - subproject 1 Details of Collaborative project: Nitrogen fertilizer reduction in winter wheat by improved prognosis of baking quality - subproject 1
- Collaborative project: Nitrogen fertilizer reduction in winter wheat by improved prognosis of baking quality - subproject 3 Details of Collaborative project: Nitrogen fertilizer reduction in winter wheat by improved prognosis of baking quality - subproject 3
- Developing a guideline for cultivation and processing of organic spelt Details of Developing a guideline for cultivation and processing of organic spelt
- Investigations on the transfer of pharmaceutical compounds used in animal husbandry into vegetable - white cabbage and leek Details of Investigations on the transfer of pharmaceutical compounds used in animal husbandry into vegetable - white cabbage and leek
- Screening of antibiotic transfer from soil into cereals in areas with high livestock concentration in Northrhine Westphalia (Germany) Details of Screening of antibiotic transfer from soil into cereals in areas with high livestock concentration in Northrhine Westphalia (Germany)
- Use of the high resolution Exactive mass spectrometer for the residue analysis of pharmacologically active substances (Transfer of pharmacologically active substances into food of plant origin) Details of Use of the high resolution Exactive mass spectrometer for the residue analysis of pharmacologically active substances (Transfer of pharmacologically active substances into food of plant origin)
Coordinated collaborative projects:
- Development and use recommendations of selected methods for distinguishing between organic and conventional products Details of Development and use recommendations of selected methods for distinguishing between organic and conventional products