Conference Papers

The Material Flow Cost Accounting (MFCA) is a management tool that can help the organizations from any industry to better understand what are the environmental and financial potential consequences of their practices using materials and energy. Applying such methodology, that aims and quantifies the flows and stocks of materials within organization in physical units to which are associated the related costs, can give to managers the information needed to generate simultaneously the reduction of the environmental impacts and financial benefits. This poster presents the methodology of continuous improvement of environmental performance and the results of its application in an organization, providing cleaning products, with implemented environmental management system.

Even though egg is considered „nature’s perfect food”, especially due to its high protein concentration of great biological value (essential amino acids profile) and high digestibility of nutrients contained, fear of cholesterol represents a barrier to the evolution of the average individual consumption. As a result there is an effervescence among researchers to obtain eggs with a reduced cholesterol content compared to standard egg. Among the ways used to lower egg cholesterol, dietary supplementation of laying hens with polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFA) is included. In this context for seven weeks a study on 120 hens Lohmann Brown (55 weeks of age) was performed to determine whether the presence of camelina and flaxseed meals (PUFA omega 3 enriched forages), determine an quality improvement of the egg. The birds were divided into 3 groups (C, E1, E2), housed in enriched cages. The basic structure of the diet was the same for all three groups. The difference between experimental diets and control diet was given by the inclusion of camelina and flaxseed meals in E1 diet (2% camelina meal +5% flaxseed meal) or E2 diet (5% flaxseed meal), respectively. Every three weeks, a number of 18 eggs/group were collected randomized, of which 6 samples/group (3 eggs/sample) were formed to determine the quality of eggs (physical parameters, cholesterol and fatty acids content). The results showed that in the diets, PUFA ratio: omega 6/omega-3 was 22.83 in C group, 4.785 in E1 group and 5.385 in E2 group. The concentration of α-linolenic acid (C18:3n3) in diets was: 1.35% fat (C), 8.18% fat (E1), 7.23% fat (E2). Yolk and whites weight did not differentiate between groups. In contrast, in group C, eggshell weight (0.41±0.01mm) was significantly (P≤0.05) higher than in E2 (0.349±0.026 mm). There were no significant differences between groups in terms of yolk color, Haugh unit and the eggshell breaking strength. The content of α-linolenic acid (C18:3n3) in egg yolk was 0.403g/100g fat in C group, significantly (P≤0.05) lower than E1 (1.82g/100g fat) and E2 (1.87g/100g fat). Omega 6/omega 3 PUFA ratio at 100g of fat in the yolk was: 16.851 to C group significantly (P≤0.05) higher than 5.44 to E1 and 5.29 E2 groups, respectively. Cholesterol content (g/whole egg) registered in C (0.266±0.025) was significantly (P≤0.05) higher than E1 (0.224±0.028 mg/egg) and E2 (0.229±0.01928 mg/egg). Analysis of collected litter during the experiment showed that heavy metals concentration (Cu, Zn) did not differentiate between the 3 groups, therefore there is no danger in case of storing or their practical application as organic fertilizer. We appreciate that using flaxseed meal alone (E2 diet) or together with camelina meal (E1 diet) an egg, with functional food properties, can be obtained.

This paper presents the environmental risk factors and the possible negative impacts on the environment from intensive farming of laying hens in storage conditions and valorization of poultry manure as natural fertilizer. The experiments and the analytical determinations were performed in the second phase of the project with the acronym VITAOU within PN II INNOVATION program, experimenting the first set of four innovative nutritional solutions for laying hens. The environmental risk factors are the existing pollutants in poultry manure: nitrogen and phosphorus compounds, heavy metals and pathogens. The obtained results show that the concentration of these elements in poultry manure is well below the limits imposed by environmental legislation. Therefore the poultry manure may become polluter only when failure to comply the good agricultural practices of fertilization. Comparing the concentration values of the four nutritional solutions with the concentration values obtained for the reference recipe was carried out a ranking of the nutritional solutions in terms of environmental impact in order to choose the best two nutritional solutions based on quality/cost environmental impact performance.

Evaluation of environmental performance is used by the top management to make informed decisions about the efficiency and effectiveness of operation environmental management system and to prioritize the environmental line from one stage to another. Selection and use in environmental analysis the relevant indicators for organization is always the key of success for a fast and effective management reviews. This paper aims to provide a guide for reporting environmental performance for organizations in the food industry, specifically in the brewing and beverage industries, easy to use by the top management in the periodic performed analyses. The guide is composed by tables with sets of general indicators / generic and specific: - energy efficiency, - efficient use of raw materials and materials, - use of water resources, - minimizing waste, - minimizing emissions (discharges to air, water, soil), - maintaining biodiversity. Sets of indicators proposed, of a general/generic nature, relevant to the food industry are understandable thereby facilitating assessment of environmental performance in any organization. From these indicators of general / generic nature can be derived specific indicators for various industries to enable organizations to improve the identification and reporting their environmental performance to all stakeholders.

This paper presents a method for assessing the environmental impacts associated with environmental aspects generated from the activities, products or services of an organization, environmental aspects related to new or planned developments, to new or modified activities products and services. The method takes into account the normal and abnormal operating situations, and the emergency situations. The method proposed for assessing the environmental impacts uses a grid with four evaluation criteria, for each criterion is assigned a rating from 1 to 10. The purpose of assessment of environmental impacts is to identify and then keeping under control the environmental aspects that have or can have a significant impact on the environment. The method is used in INCD ECOIND in the compartment Management Systems for the initial environmental analysis performed into organizations in the purpose to design, develop and implement the environmental management system according to SR EN ISO 14001:2005 standard.

To day the animal feed industry, including the ingredient suppliers, is a part of the food chain and responsible for the safety of its products. Feed manufacturers must prove the products are safe for animals and for consumers of animal products. Paper is a study to draw up a HACCP plan in a company producing dry food for pet, fish and game. After the identification of the processes and activities to manufacture the products, was drawn up a Technological flowchart. Analyzing for risks each stage of the chart, were identified the stages which are in the class of high-risk. Using the Decisional Tree method, were identified the critical control points of technological flow. Finally was drawn up a HACCP plan to control the technological parameters of the critical points in order to prevent, eliminate or reduce the risk to an acceptable level.