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Contact
Shizuoka Organization for Creation of Industries
Shizuoka-ken Sangyo Keizai Kaikan 4F
44-1 Otemachi, Aoi-ku, Shizuoka Prefecture 420-0853, Japan
Tel.: +81-54-254-4512
Fax: +81-54-251-3024
URL: http://www.ric-shizuoka.or.jp/fsh/
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R&D relating to food product functionality
Research is conducted on the mechanisms of functional ingredients found in local products, such as tea, mandarin oranges, and seafood, and technical development is promoted to create new functional food products utilizing these ingredients.
Development of new functional food products and reinvigoration of local industry
In order for local companies to develop new functional food products, industry, academia, and local governments cooperate to promote the commercialization of research results relating to food product functionality.
Development of human resources to shoulder food-related industries
Related universities are endeavoring to nurture new researchers and technicians, and local companies, the administration, and educational institutions are cooperating in human resource development to upgrade the technological levels of local companies.
Note 1: Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries
Note 2: Industrial Statistics, Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry
The role required of food is extending from not only
calorie intake but the maintenance and
enhancement of good health as well. Food Science Hills is promoting the creation of a new business. A new industry that will contribute to the realization of a society with a long healthy life span is emerging through cooperation between the life science-related universities and research institutes, and Japan's leading food-related companies concentrated in central Shizuoka.
University of Shizuoka- A fusion of Japan's top primary products and outstanding life science industries
The food industry utilizing agricultural and fishery products like green tea, bonito, and mandarin oranges, the pharmaceutical industry, and the chemical product industry are concentrated in the central part of Shizuoka. These industries cooperate with universities and research institutes that excel in the field of life science, such as the University of Shizuoka, Shizuoka University, and Tokai University. The aim of Food Science Hills is to explore the functional ingredients of local products and create a new food product industry.
Comprehensive Food Science Course- Supporting everything from the commercialization of research results to human resource development
This project provides consistent support from R&D to commercialization. The wide-ranging activities include a Regional Intensive R&D Program to promote new product development using tea; a functional food product pilot plant project; the holding of seminars providing necessary information relating to product development to local companies; and the building of a network between researchers and companies. Furthermore, Japan's first Comprehensive Food Science Course was established.
Yamaha Motor Launches Plant for Manufacturing Astaxanthin- Becoming a production base for new industries directed toward food and pharmaceuticals
Shizuoka is known as a "functional food base." Various functional food ingredients are produced here, such as lecithin, isoflavone, glucosamine, and anserine, and many companies engaged in soft capsule filling are located in the prefecture. In addition, Yamaha Motor Co., Ltd. has entered the bio-related field and started the manufacture of astaxanthin.
University of Nebraska-Lincoln Offers Consultations
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In September 2007, Food Science Hills held a forum. Rolando Flores, Director of the Food Processing Center at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln in the United States visited Shizuoka and gave individual consultations to companies in Shizuoka concerning the food market and food manufacturing technology in the United States. In the future, support will continue to be enthusiastically provided to companies in Shizuoka Prefecture that wish to develop business overseas. |
Consultations by the Food Processing Center of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln (Courtesy of Shizuoka Shimbun) |
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