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27/11/2013
€20m To Be Invested In 'Milk Food' Research
Funding of more than €20m is to be used by the Foods for Health Ireland (FHI) group to research milk for bioactive ingredients that could be used to develop new foods with nutritional and health benefits.
The money is being supplied by the Department of Jobs through Enterprise Ireland, the IDA and five companies involved in the research at FHI.
€16m of the second stage funding for FHI will come from the Government, with the balance coming from companies Carbery, Dairygold, Glanbia, the Kerry Group and the Irish Dairy Board.
Some 73 people will be employed at FHI during the next phase.
FHI involves teams of researchers at UCD, UCC, UL, Teagasc, NUI Galway, NUI Maynooth and DCU.
(MH/JP)
The money is being supplied by the Department of Jobs through Enterprise Ireland, the IDA and five companies involved in the research at FHI.
€16m of the second stage funding for FHI will come from the Government, with the balance coming from companies Carbery, Dairygold, Glanbia, the Kerry Group and the Irish Dairy Board.
Some 73 people will be employed at FHI during the next phase.
FHI involves teams of researchers at UCD, UCC, UL, Teagasc, NUI Galway, NUI Maynooth and DCU.
(MH/JP)
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