Russian scientists have created a promising composition that protects food from dangerous bacteria. This was reported to the Lenta.ru correspondent during the third International Youth Agrarian Summit (Global Youth Ag-Summit 2017) by a participant in the event, a fifth-year student of the Faculty of Chemistry of the Nizhny Novgorod State University named after Nikolai Lobachevsky Yulia Moiseev.
Antimicrobial composition based on a zinc chelate complex actively fights against pathogens that cause food spoilage. This biocide allows to increase the shelf life of products by 2.5 times and has been tested in accredited laboratories. “Now we are looking directly at how this substance, when introduced into a polymer matrix, increases the shelf life of food products,” said Moiseeva, who takes part in the work on the composition.
In addition to her, Russia at the Global Youth Ag-Summit 2017, held from October 9 to October 13, 2017 in Brussels (Belgium), is represented by Darina Serdyukova (Stavropol) and Yulia Petushkova (Omsk). In total, one hundred delegates (18-25 years old) from 49 countries of the world take part in the summit, the selection of potential agrarian leaders was carried out on the basis of an essay competition on the topic "How to provide food for the growing population of the Earth?"
The goal of the Global Youth Ag-Summit, held for the third year in a row, is to draw the attention of society, especially young people, to food security, the problem of hunger on the planet, food supply for the growing world population and the rational use of resources. As a result of the summit, the best innovative proposals of participants to make food more affordable, better quality and safer will receive implementation support and funding from the main organizer of the event, Bayer.
Also, in order to increase the natural science literacy of the Russian population, primarily schoolchildren and students, the international concern, in partnership with Future Biotech, launched an online game "Natural Intelligence", which includes interactive tasks. The three winners will receive a trip for two to an interactive science museum in Germany.
Earlier, a professor at the University of Amsterdam (Netherlands) Louise Fresco, specialist in the field of sustainable agricultural development, who took part in the Global Youth Ag-Summit 2017, named the countries, the climatic conditions in which could improve as a result of global warming.
