Public Funding for Eminate Limited

This part TSB funded feasibilty project is designed to assess the commercial potential for biologically active compounds derived from members of the Cucurbitae plant family to help naturally treat some of the most common symptoms of Type 2 diabetes.

This project aims to take a novel delivery system developed by Eminate and University of Nottingham and investigate the feasibility of delivering active ingredients over a sustained period of time. This novel delivery system is based on food ingredients and is expected to increase the bioavailibility of micronutrients to the ageing population. This feasibility study will develop potential products and test their efficacy via a human feeding trial.

This part TSB funded feasibilty project is designed to assess the commercial potential for food and feed ingredients, extracted from green plant tissue, to address support the global food sustainability agenda.

This project involves applying fermentation technology to increase the bioavailabilty of plant proteins to improve the sustainability and efficiency of fish feeds. Collaborators include Anglesey Aquaculture Ltd, Trouw (UK) Ltd, University of Liverpool, The University of the Highlands & Islands and Eminate Ltd.

This project aims to address the probiotic market and problems with making claims on their efficacy. Currently EFSA has rejected any health claims to be made on probiotics sold in Europe. One of the main reasons for this being a lack of demonstrable cause and effect data. The probiotic dietary supplementation is a £15Bn global industry, the one overriding challenge that has not been solved is the development of a rapid, in-vivo (in body) assay for proving the efficacy of probiotic delivery in the gut. This means that there is a real need to develop a quick test which can show if, and how well, a probiotic is acting in the gut. This project aims to produce a commercialisable probiotic delivery system for optimal gut health, with proven efficacy.

Campylobacter is the most common cause of food borne-illness in the UK. An EU baseline study estimated prevelance in broilers of 75 percent and in boiler carcasses of 86 percent (ESFA, 2011). It is responsible for over 80 deaths p.a. in the UK, over 65 percent of which is derived from campylobacter infected chicken (FSA, 2011). This project will develop two main intervention strategies on the farmand slaughterhouse to reduce the burden of Campylobacter in the UK poultry industry. This is particularly timely due to the recent targets released by the FSA to reduce the proportion of high contaminated carcasses from 27 to 10 percent by 2015. The strategies are based on dietary supplements aimed at reducing Campylobacter survival in the gut (novel anti-microbials); and deployment of novel screening technologies to increase contamination detection on cracasses in the slaughterhouse (flourescent faecal markers).

Hydrogen is an integral part of the move towards clean, sustainable energy systems. One key issue is that of gas storage. The safest option is the use of solid hydrides that can absorb and release hydrogen on demand. However, storage systems must combine fast kinetics with the practicalities of system manufacturing. Thus, while the move towards high surface to volume nano-particulates appears attractive, safe handling and containing these materials presents difficulties. An alternative approach was proposed here to coat metal hydride large particles to aid kinetics that require no activation. Larger particles fluidise easily and the coatings allow safer handling in air. This project also integrates other hydrides, catalysts and conducting fillers into the powders to improve kinetics and thermal conductivity. This will result in innovative advanced materials that have many potential applications including static energy storage systems. It is intended to demonstrate the technology by utilising it in: (1) a heat store for concentrated solar power and (2) domestic heat stores, (3) static hydrogen storage for capturing excess electricity generation.

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