The Russian Research & Development Institute of Food Biotechnology is a branch of the Federal State Budgetary Institution of Science “Federal Research Center of Nutrition and Biotechnologies”.
Team of the Russian Research & Development Institute of Food Biotechnology
The Russian Research & Development Institute of Food Biotechnology is the only institute of alcohol, liquor, yeast, and vinegar industry in Russia. It is an industrial research center which carries out fundamental and applied R&D work on biotechnological and membrane processes in the food industry, as well as technologies of agricultural raw materials processing.
For 90 years, the Russian Research & Development Institute of Food Biotechnology has been the main developer of technologies and formulations of vodkas and other strong alcoholic drinks in Russia and the CIS countries.
Director of the Institute, Irina Mikhailovna Abramova
Doctor of Engineering Science, Vice-Chairwoman of the Technical Committee No. 176 (Technical Committee on Standardization “Ethyl Alcohol, Alcoholic and Alcohol-containing Products”, Chairwoman of the Subcommittee No. 2 (SC No. 2). Chairwoman of the “EURASIA SPIRITS DRINKS” tasting panel
The Institute provides scientific and technical, legal, and information support for development of more than a thousand food industry companies.
It is a lead organization that works on international and federal projects on scientific challenges in plant raw materials bioconversion and enzyme preparation biotechnologies in the agribusiness sectors.
It is a center that develops methods of design and introduction of distillery security systems based on the HAССP principles in order to produce the safest alcohol products.
Irina Mikhailovna Abramova, Chairwoman of the Competition Expert Panel, Marina Eduardovna Medrish, Secretary of the Competition Expert Panel
Since July 2008, the Test Laboratory of Russian Research & Development Institute of Food Biotechnology has been a certification authority of the Voluntary Certification System “ALCOLUX”, the core activities of which being the following:
1.to detect ingredients and combinations thereof in alcoholic drink formulations, which can have a negative effect on toxic properties of ethyl alcohol;
2. to provide consultative assistance to distilleries in formulating in order to produce the safest alcohol products;
3. to create and promote vodkas with a low level of toxicity
Russian Research & Development Institute of Food Biotechnology website: www.Russian Research & Development Institute of Food Biotechnology.info