Scottish Parliament's Cross Party Group on Food
CEO Mark Bustard spoke at the Scottish Parliament’s Cross Party Group on Food, resulting in positive twitter engagement from the Cabinet Secretary for Communities and Local Government, CPG members Gail Ross MSP and Colin Smyth MSP. The CPG on Food indicated that they would be interested in a future meeting looking at the solutions biotechnology can offer the food and drink industry. The below is an excerpt from the minutes of the CPG meeting, and can be found on the group’s page on the Scottish Parliament website.
“Mark Bustard IBioIC (MB) explained that IBiolC was Scotland’s Industrial Biotechnology Innovation Centre one of 7 established by the Scottish Government to improve the interaction between academia and business and business to business. They were looking at new sustainable value chains and driving the bio-economy growth. The plan was to grow industrial biotechnology in Scotland to 200 companies. The work spans from farm to fork all the way from farmers to waste companies and covers areas such as sustainable processing, use of biological systems, co-product utilization and zero net carbon. Examples of projects were, turning shellfish waste to novel film packaging for food, turning coffee grounds to food compost and taking waste fermentation material from distilleries into protein.”
For more information, or to discuss further, please contact IBioIC’s Public Affairs Manager Debbie McCreath at debbie.mccreath@ibioic.com.