Food Safety, Quality and Health

SEQUSAL research group aims at developing sustainable strategies to enhance the safety, quality and nutritional properties and shelf-life of food to meet the societal challenges. The research excellence and internationalization are performed within three main areas, addressing (i) Assurance and improvement of the quality and safety of the food, (ii) Biorefinery and functionalisation to maximise the use of resources for obtaining compounds of interest for the agrifood sector, including alternative proteins and (iii) Use of live (micro)organisms for biopresernvation and/or bioconversion. Through an oriented research approach, the SEQUSAL activities are developed under the frame of national and European projects from public competitive calls as well as several research contracts with private companies of the food sector and public administration. SEQUSAL aims to transfer and disseminate research outputs to the society in general, particularly the scientific