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)