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Thursday, May 18, 2017
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ILOILO CITY, May 16 — The Food and Nutrition Research Institute (FNRI) of the Department of Science and Technology (DOST) is looking for adopters of its food technologies to get them commercialized and become readily available to the public.
FNRI has developed six food technologies that aimed to boost the nutritional status of Filipinos. These include dairy products, fortified foods, stabilized brown rice, complementary foods, food for disaster and calamity and squash supplemented foods.
In Western Visayas, there is a facility that caters to the processing of complementary foods, according to Science Research Specialist II Jaypy S. De Juan during the nutrition communication network (Nutricomnet) media forum and monitoring meeting held at the DOST regional office here, Tuesday.
FNRI has partnered with the local government of Cabatuan, Iloilo; University of Antique in Antique and Negrense Volunteers for Change in Negros Occidental for the roll out of the complementary food technology that include rice-mongo blend, rice-mongo-sesame blend, rice-mongo crunchies and rice-mongo curls.
The ready-to-eat complementary food (paste) for infants and young children (momsie) and the micro-nutrient growth mix (MGM), however, are not yet available in Western Visayas. “We are looking for partners to adopt our technologies,” he said.
He explained that except for the complementary food, which entails no cost for the technology transfer, all the other products have minimal licensing fee of not less than P5,000.
Upon adoption of the technology, the adopters are expected to produce, promote, market and maintain the standard of the product. FNRI will provide the training, training materials, know-how, technology manuals and good manufacturing practices.
Those who are interested to adopt are encouraged to get in touch with the FNRI –DOST for further information.
Meantime, the FNRI has developed an electronic Technology Transfer Monitoring Map, an online web-based application of the various technology transfer activities.
It serves as a tool for entrepreneurs, local government units, non-government organizations and other stakeholders in identifying technologies and products that are ready for transfer and commercialization. (PNA)
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