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Research Projects

BRAD is a small research institution with research experience in a.o. quality of organic and biodynamic plant products. The research focus in the institution lies on the development and application of the picture developing methods: biocrystallization and the `Steigbild' method.
DARCOF was established in 1995 as a "research centre without walls". The remit is to coordinate Danish research within organic food and farming, and the aim is to elucidate ideas and problems through the promotion of high quality research of international standard.
Elm Farm Research Centre is a registered education charity which seeks to develop and support appropriate agriculture and food systems. As Britain’s leading research, development and advisory institution for organic agriculture, EFRC has played a pivotal role in the development of organic research, policy and standards since 1980. EFRC’s Organic Demonstration Farm Network of 10 farms hosts an annual programme of events and seminars. The programme is used to disseminate research results and technical information.
Research, analysis and consultation within the area of food
Laverstoke Park Laboratory Services will become fully operational in April 2005. It is a microbiological research laboratory which to studies the effect of the style of Biodynamic farming at Laverstoke Park Farm on the quality and healthiness of the produced food. The aim is to use the latest techniques to produce food in as natural a way as possible.
The Louis Bolk Instituut in the Netherlands is an independent private research institute with departments specialised in organic agriculture, human nutrition and medicine. This unique combination enables to link research on the production of organic food crops with research in human health and nutrition.
NORSOK is an institute who works with research- and development of organic agriculture and plays a major role as the national centre of competence for organic agriculture in Norway.
The Research Institute of Organic Agriculture (FiBL, Switzerland) was constituted as a private foundation by organic farmers, scientists and politicians in 1973. It has established practice oriented agronomic and economic research, and is making new findings available to the organic farmers in Switzerland and abroad.
The Faculty of Ecological Agricultural Science at the University of Kassel (Witzenhausen) is the leading Agricultural Faculty with focus on organicagriculture in Germany.
WUR-RIKILT Institute of Food Safety is a Dutch independent research institute for contract research in the food chain and is a part of Wageningen University & Researchcentre.
The institute with its 175 staff focuses on research on the safety and health of food with a multidisciplinary approach.
Research Projects

RESEARCH PROJECTS

The FQH member research institutes have all been active for many years in the field of food and product quality, nutriton, safety and health. In this area former and current research projects of each institute are presented. It is foreseen that under the FQH umbrella, research cooperation will intensify and several FQH projects will start in the course of 2004.