Scientific and Practical Centre for Foodstuffs offers food manufacturers the technology to identify and quantify palm oil as a component of vegetable fats in foods under a commercial agreement with technical assistance, and is looking for partners to conclude a research cooperation agreement.

At present, the problems associated with the identification and quantification of individual oils and fats in various proportions in food products have not been fully resolved. The methods of product quality control in force in the Republic of Belarus (technical regulatory legal acts regulating the requirements for products and establishing methods for monitoring quality indicators) do not fully reliably determine its authenticity, since they are based on the analytical determination of indirect, generalized product indicators that do not characterize it actual composition.

Guidelines for the identification of palm oil in foodstuffs regulate the determination of fatty acid, sterol, tolk compositions of the fatty structure of food products, the ratios of carbon, hydrogen, oxygen isotopes and determine the presence or absence of palm oil.

In 2020, 4 agreements on scientific and technical cooperation were concluded, including 2 international agreements with a scientific organization of the People's Republic of China, 1 with a research institute of the Russian Federation. In total, there are 70 international agreements on scientific and technical cooperation with scientific organizations and universities in Kazakhstan, Russia, Ukraine, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Poland, Armenia, Sweden, Bulgaria, China. Representatives of foreign organizations take part in seminars and conferences organized by Scientific and Practical Centre for Foodstuffs. In 2020, the organization was visited by over 78 representatives of foreign organizations.

Scientific and Practical Centre for Foodstuffs occupies a leading position in the food industry due to the concentration of scientific research aimed at solving urgent problems in the development of new technologies and equipment, creating a series of new competitive food products for various population groups.

Main tasks in the field of quality:
- formation of fundamentally new methodological foundations for conducting fundamental and applied research aimed at implementing state development programs of the Republic of Belarus in the food industry;
- creation and implementation of new science-intensive and energy-saving technologies (biotechnologies) for deep processing of raw materials of plant and animal origin;
- development of a wide range of food products for functional, preventive and special purposes (including for children) that meet international standards of quality, safety and competitiveness.

The main activities of Scientific and Practical Centre for Foodstuffs:
- scientific support of technological and technical problems of improvement and reconstruction of enterprises of fruit and vegetable, starch, wine-making, alcohol, alcoholic beverages, beer and non-alcoholic, oil and fat, confectionery, sugar and other food industries in order to increase the competitiveness and quality of food products;
- creation and implementation of new technologies for deep processing of raw materials of animal and vegetable origin for the production of a wide range of food and feed;
- development of technical regulatory legal acts (STB, technical specifications, GOST, Codes of established practice, technical regulations of the Customs Union and amendments to them), technological documents (technological instructions, recipes) of food products, incl. products for functional, preventive, health-improving and special purposes (including for children) that meet international standards of quality, safety and competitiveness;
- development of technical documentation and passports for equipment, manufacturing of experimental and serial technological equipment for the food industry, machines and general-purpose equipment;
- development of technologies for storage and preparation for processing of raw materials of plant and animal origin;
development of new and revision of existing norms for the consumption of raw materials and auxiliary materials for food industry enterprises;
- carrying out certification of food and perfumery-cosmetic products, containers and packaging; assessment of production laboratories for technical competence, metrological support for the production of food industry enterprises;
- development of methods, testing to determine the quality and safety indicators of raw materials and food products, issuance of test reports.

Food manufacturers interested in acquiring technology for the identification and quantification of palm oil as a component of vegetable fats in foods under a commercial agreement with technical assistance.

Partners interested in concluding an agreement on restearch cooperation in the field of food quality improvement.