SAVE FOOD Session at Upakovka 2018
SAVE FOOD Russia will host a session entitled "Innovative packaging solutions and modern technologies to reduce food waste and loss" at the upcoming Upakovka packaging conference to be held in Moscow, Russia on January 23-26,2018.
With a specific focus on business solutions, SAVE FOOD has invited representatives of local businesses who work along the food chain, farm to fork . Attendees will include food producers as well as technology developers working to reduce food loss and waste or expand shelf life.
The programme of the forthcoming session is below:
The programme prepared by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) Liaison Office with the Russian Federation features high-level representatives of industry associations, the private sector, the expert community and FAO who will, on top of best international practice, discuss some of the new technologies for reducing food loss and waste developed in Russia.
Moderator: Eugenia Serova, Director, Liaison Office with the Russian Federation, FAO
13.00 – 13.15 Robert van Otterdijk, Agro-Industry Officer, Food loss and waste expert, FAO
Global status of the food loss and waste problem and FAO’s vision and role
13.15 – 13.30 Musheg Mamikonyan, Head of the Board of Trustees of the Stolypin Foundation
Solutions for reducing food loss and waste in the context of the SDGs
13.30 – 13.45 Irina Antyushina, Senior Sustainable Business & Partnerships Manager, Unilever
Unilever’s global strategy to reduce food loss and waste: examples from Unilever’s international and Russian operations
13.45 – 14.00 Armen Nalbandyan, CEO “Liliani”
Alternative solutions in grain storage: the “sleeve” technology
14.00 – 14.15 Vitaliy Momot, President, Association of operators of refrigerated railway rolling stock
Fish and fish products losses when transporting by rail
14.15 – 14.30 Olga Maxutova, Business development manager for Russia / CIS, BU Functional Minerals, Clariant
Oxygen absorbents and desiccants from Clariant – key to reducing food waste and food losses
Svetlana Smayls, Industry development manager, Clariant
Effective hot melt for food packaging
14.30 – 14.45 Alexandr Zenkin, Development Director, SOEZM
Presentation title TBC
14.45 – 15.00 Ice House Moscow Logistic Complex (speaker TBC)
The controlled atmosphere (CA) technology
15.00 – 15.15 Yurii Katsnelson, President, Russian Guild of Bakers and Confectioners
Bread and bakery products procurement optimization for retail chains in light of the need to minimize the volumes of unsold produce
15.15 – 15.30 Sergey Perminov, Director for R&D, PepsiCo, Russia
“Zerowaste” production cycle (TBC)