On 20 September, companies and politicians focus on food ingredients, including ingredients produced on rapeseed.
Denmark has a significant ingredients sector, which has a turnover of more than over DKK 55 billion. kroner per year and with a large export around the globe.
One of the food ingredient companies is Ferm Food, which Emmelev bought into at the turn of this year with a 25 percent stake.
And exactly Ferm Food and Emmelev A/S will play a role when Agriculture & Food and Dakofo hold a conference on the ingredients sector on 20 September. It will take place in the Community Hall at Christiansborg, where a number of companies, politicians, the Minister and experts show up.
FERM FOOD ApS has spent a number of years developing a special fermentation technology for the production of food ingredients from plants and grains. The partnership was entered into after a longer test phase based on focusing on rapeseedprotein for food.
“Fermentation technology has proven to be highly efficient and competitive, and the team brings knowledge that is crucial to our goal of making rapeseed suitable as food," said co-owner Morten Simonsen, Emmelev, when the partnership was started.
The conference at Christiansborg is being launched because the potential in the ingredient food is great with an increasing global demand for plant-based solutions, but the area is also challenged by the current EU legislation and strong competition from international players, according to L&F and Dakofo.
There will, among other things, be a series of presentations from e.g. from the Minister for Food, Agriculture and Fisheries, Jacob Jensen (V), and along the way politicians from Christiansborg and the EU Parliament will give their views in round table discussions on how they it believe the potential of plant-based food ingredients can be realised.
