ACTUAL

The series of professional days organized by WESSLING Hungary Ltd. started on March 4, when a topic expected to draw serious attention, the allergens were discussed.
Because of the large number of representatives from different companies indicating their intent to participate during the preliminary registration, the event had to be held in another venue with a larger conference room.
The event hosting close to 90 guests was finally held at the stylish Ramada Resort Budapest Hotel, with Dr. Adrienn Micsinai, head of the Food Safety Business Unit, presiding.
Introductory presentation of the professional day was given by Katalin Ősz, employee of FVM, about the present and future of food allergen regulations and about the immunological background of the development of food allergy, followed by a presentation by our co-organizer, R-Biopharm Ltd., about the determination of the allergen content ni foodstuffs.
The last lectures of the day were presented by our colleagues Dr. Tamás Szigeti and Dr. Andrea Martin on the topics „Analytical methods for the determination of certain allergenic components of foodstuffs” and „Allergen management – Tracing”.
At the end of the professional day our guests were invited for a visit in the laboratory that drew great attention.

The series of professional days continued with a seminar on Food microbiology that was organized by FoodMicro Ltd. together with Applied Biosystems Ltd., a distributor of laboratory equipment.
Just like for allergens, the professional day started with an analysis of the legal background, in this case Zoltán Gyaraky, head of department in FVM, spoke about the connection between a safe food chain and fast methods. During the morning session colleagues of Applied Biosystems (Life Technologies of late) demonstrated possible solutions with real-time PCR, and then the managing director and an employee of FoodMicro Ltd. presented practical results. Dr. Veronika Pintér spoke about requirements for the detection methods of pathogenic microorganisms occuring in foodstuffs and feeds, and then Linda Zoller talked about experiences gained during the detection of pathogenic microorganisms with real-time PCR.

The last professional day of the spring so far dealt with topics interesting not only to food experts, but also promoted thermodynamics and ethics related thinking together concerning sustainable development.
Sustainability has been a hot topic among experts dealing with global phenomena of environmental protection and laypeople since the end of the 1980’s. It is easy to see that physical/chemical/biological/social processes occuring in the quasi closed (isolated) system of Earth may lead to the slackening of existing physical/biological/ecological structures in a thermodynamic approach, due to the increasing enthropy of the quasi closed system. Lecturers of the seminar argued about the ethical, physical, ecological content of conclusions arising from this thermodynamic approach. However, our Earth cannot be considered a completely isolated system because of the exchange of radiating energy with the universe. The energy radiated towards Earth by the Sun is emiited by the surface of the Sun, which has a temperature of about 5700 K. This energy is absorbed by Earth, and then reemitted into cosmic space at ca. 280 K, at a significantly lower frequency. Thus, the quantity of heat reaching Earth from the Sun and the heat emitted by Earth are equal: QSun = QEarth. Let us consider enthropy values: SSun = QSun/TSun >> SEarth = QEarth/TEarth. In the expressions S = enthropy, Q = quantity of emitted heat, T = absolute temperature. So the enthropy balance due to the radiation energy traffic of Earth is negative! This means that „Mother Earth” is capable of taking care of the support of structure creating processes on its surface in the long run. However, the question remained open whether man, using Earth’s power sources wastefully, can be a part of the coming structures.

The close to 50 participants found the topic so interesting that the planned discussion time of 90 minutes proved too short, debates continued enthusiastically even during lunch.

This great interest in our professional days gives a new momentum to us: organization of saminars is far from over;after a summer break professional consultations will continue with new topics.


Dr. Tamás Szigeti Tamás; director of business development
Dr. Anett Popovics; head of marketing

- Consulting – in order to obtain PDO/PGI status for agricultural products and foods

To improve the quality of agricultural products and foods, to inform consumers better and to increase the competitiveness of these products, a system for protection of origin was created in the EU in 1992. This system, using the designations Protected Designation of Origin (PDO) and Protected Geographical Indication (PGI), made it possible for consumers to find the sought-after extra quality in more and more products, mainly by providing information about the exact place of origin of the product; it also enabled many farmers to earn a living by producing products satisfying higher quality standards while staying in their own regions.

WESSLING Nonprofit Ltd. helps its partners to prepare the documentation (product description, uniform documents) necessary for obtaining PDO/PGI status.

For further information please contact Ms. Júlia Jakab:
     Phone: +36-1-272-2135; 06-30-599-8746
     E-mail: jakab.julia@wirec.eu; info@wirec.eu