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Is the Business Association for the promotion of biotechnology in food industry
23/10/2008
October 23, 2008
The Business Association for the promotion of biotechnology in the food industry (AFBIA), whose founding act was adopted on 27 March, was officially born to increase the competitiveness of the Spanish food industry through the use of biotechnology in the designproduction and marketing of products and services, enhance business linkages in the field of biotechnology, creating a collaborative space for the development and use of biotechnology in the food sector, promoting knowledge of biotechnology by the business officersEconomic and social, and promote the design and launch of new biotechnological services of interest to the food sector, according to the technological centre Ainia.
The entity integrates 27 companies, technological centres and universities, and its goal is to become a national technological cluster in the area of food biotechnology. To this end, members of AFBIA will work as suppliers of equipment for the development of biotechnological processes, engineering companies, providers of diagnostic techniques based on molecular biology and biosensors, producers of additives and/or micro-organisms of industrial interest, manufacturers of food, and private and public r & d centres.
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