GENERAL INFORMATION:

Institute of Food Bioresources was founded in 2000 as juridical person unity. It's a Food Research Institute belonging to the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Rural Development. The incomes of the institute are entirely extra budgetary and are derived from:

• Projects within national and international research programmes - by competition;
  
• Projects in priority research programs - by tender;
  
• Orders and contracts of performed services in its field of activity (laboratory analysis, production, consultancy, etc).

Institute of Food Bioresources:

• is National Contact point of Ministry of Research for FP7, Theme 2: Food, Agriculture and Biotechnologies;
• National delegate of ICC Romania (International Association of Science and Cereal Technology) in Viena, with 50 member countries.
• it's the only Food Research Institute belonging to the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Rural Development;
• has RENAR (Romanian Accreditation Association) accredited laboratories;
• has the only accredited laboratory in Romania for global and specific migration of food packing compounds;
• has competent personnel in food industry and agriculture, trained in different foreign institutions;
• it's the only Research Institute which make products for food intolerances (Agral project);
• own the only Information and Dissemination Center for GMO (Biotech project);
• has HACCP certifying body (Infras project);
• has an information-dissemination center for human nutrition (Agral project);
• coordinate The Technic Committee of Standardization 180 - Consumption Seeds (in collaboration with ASRO);
• evaluate the physical, chemical and microbiological quality of vegetable agriculture resources and food products;
• draws up studies and tests on dietary foods, organic products and foods for special consumers;
• provide consultancy and services in areas of food industry;
• has a technical specialist body in the field of organic farming by The organic certification body - IBACert;
• in the Institute of Food Bioresources works Food Supplements Notification Office.

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