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Patricia Rodrigo is Head of Marketing & Product at Amerex. With a background in Biotechnology and a Master’s in Biotechnology Business Management, her work focuses on research and communication of natural alternatives to additives, conservation strategies, and pathogen control in various food groups for the industry.

Amerex launches BIAMEX FP and more than five new preservatives in 2024

8 October, 2024/by Patricia Rodrigo

At Amerex we are committed to providing the best biotechnology solutions for the food industry. We are therefore pleased to announce that Amerex Research and Development has launched its innovative Biamex FP product, designed to improve food preservation and further enhance the range of natural preservatives in our Biamex range.

This new development is designed to extend the commercial shelf life of food that are close to their best before date, providing advanced protection against Listeria and preventing heterofermentation. In addition, at a higher dosage, Biamex FP is also effective against enterobacteria and yeasts, offering a global solution to many food safety challenges.

Biamex FP has undergone extensive testing in our pilot plant, as well as demanding challenge tests at customers where Listeria and Salmonella were inoculated, with excellent results in terms of effectiveness.

In addition, Amerex has introduced more than five new preservatives to the market this year. Our wide range of solutions is designed to meet the specific needs of each food producer. Our team of biotech consultants is available to evaluate our customers’ manufacturing processes and offer the best recommendation, whether it is Biamex FP or other products in our product portfolio, always looking for a customised solution.

For more information about our new references or how to improve production processes, we have an expert team available to advise you, do not hesitate to contact us!

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Patricia Rodrigo is Head of Marketing & Product at Amerex. With a background in Biotechnology and a Master’s in Biotechnology Business Management, her work focuses on research and communication of natural alternatives to additives, conservation strategies, and pathogen control in various food groups for the industry.

Amerex reinforces its commitment to sustainability through the acquisition of solar panels and a 100% electric car

27 June, 2024/by Patricia Rodrigo

At Amerex, we are committed to sustainability and environmental protection. In line with this commitment, solar panels were acquired in 2022 to supply electricity to our facilities, as well as the incorporation of a 100% electric car into our vehicle fleet.

The installed solar panels have allowed our offices, pilot plant, and manufacturing plant to operate with clean and renewable energy, with 90% of Amerex’s electricity expenditure being generated by these panels (according to statistics from the last two years of use). This has significantly reduced our carbon footprint, promoting responsible use of natural resources. This investment not only underscores our commitment to sustainability but also contributes to energy efficiency and long-term cost reduction.

Additionally, the acquisition of an electric car strengthens our commitment to sustainable mobility. Amerex currently has a fleet of hybrid vehicles, and with the acquisition of this 100% electric vehicle, we can make more ecological trips, reducing CO2 emissions and promoting a healthier environment for everyone. This car is used by some employees for their daily commute to the office, reducing the use of personal gasoline or diesel vehicles, as well as for other necessary trips during the workday.

At Amerex, we understand that sustainability is not just a trend but a responsibility that we must assume to protect our planet. These actions are part of a broader strategy that includes the implementation of sustainable practices in all aspects of our activity.

We will continue to work to integrate sustainable solutions into our daily operations, demonstrating that it is possible to grow responsibly and in harmony with the environment.

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Patricia Rodrigo is Head of Marketing & Product at Amerex. With a background in Biotechnology and a Master’s in Biotechnology Business Management, her work focuses on research and communication of natural alternatives to additives, conservation strategies, and pathogen control in various food groups for the industry.

Alimentaria Foodtech 2023 is officially underway! Don’t miss out on the recent developments in food safety

3 October, 2023/by Patricia Rodrigo

From today, Tuesday 26th September, the Amerex sales team will be present with its own stand at the Alimentaria Foodtech trade fair which will take place in Barcelona until Friday 29th September.

Alimentaria Foodtech is a fair of ingredients, machinery and technology, which has participants from all over the world and where the most recent developments in the industry are presented. This space is a meeting point for the most relevant companies in the sector.

The fair will be held at Fira Barcelona, in Hall 2. Visiting hours for each day are:

Tuesday 26 to Thursday 28 September from 9.30am to 6.30pm
Friday 29 September from 9.30am to 4pm.

You can find us at stand A 264, where we will be presenting this year’s fresh updates, result of the research projects we are part of.

You will also be able to find one of our latest products in the Ingrenova space, where the most innovative Intermediate Food Products (IFP) will be presented.

Here are some photos of the stand so you can find us better!

If you need more information, please do not hesitate to contact us.

We look forward to hearing from you!

Telephone: +34 91 845 42 14

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Patricia Rodrigo is Head of Marketing & Product at Amerex. With a background in Biotechnology and a Master’s in Biotechnology Business Management, her work focuses on research and communication of natural alternatives to additives, conservation strategies, and pathogen control in various food groups for the industry.

MOVING FORWARD ON FOOD DEFENCE

28 October, 2022/by Patricia Rodrigo

Hello everyone and welcome back! Today, we want to tell you how, from Amerex, we keep moving forward since our certification in the FSSC22000 to take care of our process. One of the main concepts of this certification is Food Defense.

“Food defense” is born after the terrorist attacks on September 11^th, being defined by the United States Department of Agriculture as the protection of the food supply against the intentioned adulteration with biologic, chemical or radioactive agents. This situation can be done by dissatisfied employees or by the competence.

Is for this reason why the formation in the field is essential to assure a safety food supply. From Amerex, we did as a team a course that let us learn how to recognise the risks, acting preventively against all of them. Thanks to that, we are capable to detect which are the possible potential vulnerabilities and put in action a system that let us facing the problems that they can generate.

Thanks to this system, we can implement protocols that let us facing up this malicious practices. This protocols includes the installation of safety cameras, fences to ensure access control and other practices that help us control the access to our manufacturing sites.

Like this, we protect us from external attacks, assuring the quality of our processes and generating trust on our clients. Little by little, we are keeping up with the market requirements, maintaining our commitment to quality for you.

We are at your disposal!

Phone number: +34 91 845 42 14

Patricia Rodrigo is Head of Marketing & Product at Amerex. With a background in Biotechnology and a Master’s in Biotechnology Business Management, her work focuses on research and communication of natural alternatives to additives, conservation strategies, and pathogen control in various food groups for the industry.

AMEREX IS ALREADY AN INNOVATIVE SME

27 April, 2021/by admin

Hello everyone and welcome back! Once again, we want to share with you Amerex’s most recent progress of which we are enormously proud. Thanks to our R&D department dynamic and restless character regarding new developments, we have been awarded the Innovative SME stamp.

So, what is an Innovative SME? It is a designation granted by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation that acknowledges the enterprises’ innovative character and achievements in this field. It has been possible for us to achieve this recognition because of our current active involvement in R&D. Some of the R&D projects we are currently working on are the European Up4Health Project of the Horizon 2020 financing program, as well as the Cervera Project.

What does it really mean to have this stamp? All the efforts we have made during these years to stay at the forefront of the food industry and to help our clients improve their processes and products with differentiating technology finally receive public recognition.

Furthermore, this stamp is now one more reason for Amerex’s ambition to continue to grow. The development of new ideas and new products is one of the foundation stones on which we base our activity. In conclusion, we would like you to keep counting on us for many more years as we will always work to be a reliable and innovative enterprise.

We are very proud and happy to have obtained this certification. We will continue working to keep you updated!

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PROUD TO PRESENT THE AMEREX APPLICATIONS MAP – Get to know our natural products

3 November, 2020/by Nuria Lázaro

Hello everyone in this new Blog post! With the aim of bringing you closer to Amerex’s products, we want to share with you a short and very schematic conceptual map that summarizes what has been building throughout its 40-year history thanks to its natural products.

As a first reference and taking into account the applicability of our preservatives, we consider as target foods those that are commercially threatened, due to their short shelf-life and their need to be stored refrigerated.

Amerex’s concept of a preservative includes a wide range of natural products that enhance the food safety (from a microbiological perspective) and the shelf-life (referring to the organoleptic characteristics), also reducing the need to use certain treatments or chemical additives, for example.

Bearing in mind the main characteristics of our target Foods and pointing out that our products do not produce colour, odour or taste; we have been broadening and improving our applications to reach all kinds of foods and food sectors for several years.

All these concepts are reflected in the Amerex Applications Map. Contact us and ask for your copy in the following email.

In addition, we will be happy to attend to your interests, curiosities and needs and to answer any questions you may have. We really hope this document brings you great ideas!

Phone number: +34 91 845 42 14

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Nuria Lázaro is the R&D and Quality Manager for Amerex’s technical team. She holds a degree in Biology and a master’s degree in Biotechnology. She brings her experience in food preservation and safety, specializing in legislation and the development of new preservatives and antioxidants.

R&D BOOST – AMEREX IN THE UP4HEALTH PROJECT

18 September, 2020/by Nuria Lázaro

BBI, Bio-based Industries Consortium, and H2020 logos related to the Up4Health innovation project

“This project has received funding from the Bio Based Industries Joint Undertaking (JU) under grant agreement No 888003. The JU receives support from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme and the Bio Based Industries Consortium”

Hello everyone and welcome once again to our Blog. Today we are thrilled to announce our participation in a European project within the Horizon 2020 financing program! We would like to share the main highlights of this innovative, stimulating venture which is sure to give you inspiration and feasible ideas to apply in your own business…

Essentially, the European Up4Health project is based on the utilization of biomass generated in various processes in diverse industries such as wineries, oil mills and nut processing plants. The functional ingredients derived from these have multiple applications in various other industries like food, nutraceutical and cosmetics.

Within the scope of Up4health, besides making use of these residual, bioactive compound rich raw materials from the food sector, it also optimizes the value chain of productive industries by achieving the goal of ‘zero waste’-thus making the project highly sustainable, as well as innovative.

The aforementioned functional ingredients are the following: natural fruit water rich in polyphenols, dietary fiber rich in polyphenols, natural oily fruit extracts and prebiotic xylooligosaccharides. The applications in which these bioactive compounds can be used range from functional foods, such as meat products, healthy snack bars, soft foods for the elderly, drinkable solutions in the form of gel, olive oil, natural drinks, yogurt, to nutraceuticals supplements and even cosmetics.

Over the next 48 months, we will collaborate with nine organizations from five different countries to carry out this project successfully.

So, what specific role does Amerex play in Up4health? We will be conducting trials using certain polyphenols extracted from olive and grape fiber flour, with the aim of delaying the oxidative processes and thus increasing the shelf-life of the final products in food industry.

Ultimately, the main objectives are going to be: on one hand, maintaining the colour, avoiding oxidation and thus prolonging the shelf-life of the product. On the other hand, enhancing the food safety of the product which may be affected by the growth of spoilage microorganisms.

And how do we set about this task? In the initial phase, the necessary requirements for the functional ingredients such as sensory profile, microbiological safety and physical properties will be determined in order to fulfill the desired outcome, in line with the end consumer’s needs.

The role of Amerex alongside other partnering companies is to make sure that these requirements are well defined, as this will be the main determinant for the success of the project. We will execute this, headed by the UNIVERSITY OF VIGO, who will make certain that the appropriate biomass requirements and objectives are met owing to this collaboration.

We would like to greatly express our gratitude to ISANATUR SPAIN S.L. for trusting us with this amazing opportunity, and also to CONTACTICA S.L., for making this project possible.

We are eager to keep you updated in this matter, and hope it to be very soon. In the meantime…

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Nuria Lázaro is the R&D and Quality Manager for Amerex’s technical team. She holds a degree in Biology and a master’s degree in Biotechnology. She brings her experience in food preservation and safety, specializing in legislation and the development of new preservatives and antioxidants.

LET US SHOW YOU OUR NEW 2020 CATALOGUE

27 July, 2020/by Nuria Lázaro

¡Hello again to everyone and welcome to our Blog! Today, we are proud to introduce to you our 2020 catalogue, which encapsulates all the research findings and developments achieved by our team till date: the 2020 AMEREX CATALOGUE.

Amerex has over 40 years of experience in the food industry, and we believe in helping producers and consumers alike, which is why we are sharing our knowledge to enable you in making better choices. Our philosophy has always revolved around the prioritization of R&D sector. For us, innovation goes hand in hand with our trials and analysis, and our conclusions have been brought about by many years of extensive research based on this philosophy.

So, here is the result of all this work! A document where you can find solutions to many problems that affect companies in the food industry, strictly adhering to our slogan: “A solution for every challenge”. We want to give you a little “sneak peak” of the content…

Here’s an introduction to all our main trials conducted using our preservatives and starters, on the meat industry.

In this picture is described the growth of Lactobacilli in fresh sausages with and without the addition of a Safemix preservative. Values in the control sample shows an exponential growth from day 1 to day 7, reaching around day 6 a value of 6 on the log scale (ten raised to the power of six), above the Lactobacilli shelf-life limit. However, in two samples on which Safemix has been incorporated, there exists a progressive lowering of Lactobacilli to a logarithmic scale below 4 (ten raised to the power of four), around day 5 in the case of Safemix 1, and from day 1 to day 7 of shelf-life in the case of Safemix 2 — Image 1. Trials on fresh sausage with our range of preservatives – Safemix

In this picture two burgers can be seen: a control with three additives incorporated (citrate, ascorbate and diacetate), and another one on which diacetate has been replaced by the Safemix preservative. This last one has a better color, which proves that one of the additives can be substituted with a natural solution and achieve better results. — Image 2. Trials on burgers with our range of preservatives – Safemix

This picture shows a comparison between a dried sausage (chorizo) manufactured with Fermitrat-S1, one of our starters, and the same chorizo without a starter. Differences in texture can be observed, the dried sausage with the starter shows a much solid texture produced by water retention and a lower pH. On the other hand, the control dried sausage presents a typical wrinkle, because of the no retention of water by the meat proteins as the result of no acidification. — Imagen 3. Differences between dried sausages with/without a starter

In this picture you can see a loin injected with a very special starter from our Fermitrat range, based on micrococci that do not takes part on an acidification proccess. This starter only produce a color similar to the one provided by nitrification, which remains stable over time (in the picture it is showed 15 days after injecting) — Image 4. Pork loin injected with a Fermitrat starter

In addition to this, we have laid eyes on other prominent sectors of the food industry in the past few years. We believe that our range of preservatives will be of great use owing to their effectiveness. In the coming years, we aspire to develop and boost our potential to a greater extent, but for now, here is a brief glimpse into some of our trials.

This picture shows a comparison between spanish omelettes exposed to elevated temperature conditions. One of them has a preservative from the Biamex range, while the other one doesn't. It can be seen much more gas generated in spanish omelette without the preservative, as well as a much less consistent texture — Image 5. Trials in spanish omelettes with our range of preservatives – Biamex

In this picture the evolution of total plate count can be seen in samples of filling sauce, with and without Biamex, one of our preservatives, added. A considerable difference is observed, the sample with the protector is mantained around ten raised to the power of two, while the control sample reaches a logarithmic scale of ten raised to the power of six — Image 6. Trials in a filling sauce with our range of preservatives – Biamex

And there is so much more! Following are over 30 pages of visual documents to backup and display our research, would you like to take a look?

Or send us an email to: imasd@amerexingredientes.com

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Nuria Lázaro is the R&D and Quality Manager for Amerex’s technical team. She holds a degree in Biology and a master’s degree in Biotechnology. She brings her experience in food preservation and safety, specializing in legislation and the development of new preservatives and antioxidants.

AMEREX VIRTUAL

19 June, 2020/by Nuria Lázaro

Our world has changed in many ways due to recent events, and it hasn’t gone unnoticed by us. Even though we cherish the fact that things have significantly improved, here, at Amerex, we are working just as hard as always but with a bigger foccus on implementing methods to ensure our clients safety. This has led us to the creation of Amerex Virtual, which is the topic of today’s Blog.

Let’s see what is it about:

Step 1: In a very easy calendar, simply select a date and a time when you are available to have a meeting with us. Don’t forget to fill your name and the company you work for.

This Doodle is no longer available. Please send an email to imasd@amerexingredientes.com to schedule a meeting.

Step 2: Wait for our confirmation email to obtain the link for the scheduled meeting

Step 3: Enter via the link on the selected day and time to join our meeting

Simple and effective!

We hope you find this system very useful. It is our pleasure to be at your disposal in this unusual times we are living in, always trying to lend a helping hand towards the development of safer products for every sector from the food industry.

Thank you very much again for your trust.

We are still here for you!

Phone number: +34 91 845 42 14