IAPRI Member

Agrochemistry and Food Technology Institute
(Instituto de Agroquímica y Tecnología de Alimentos)

Address	Apartado de Correos 73 46100 Burjassot (Valencia) SPAIN
Street Address	Polígono La Coma s/n 46980 Paterna (Valencia) SPAIN
Contact	Dr Ramón Catalá (Packaging materials, Food packaging, Food packaging interactions; Canning; Corrosion Technology)
Alternative Contact	Dr Rafael Gavara (Packaging materials, Polymers, Food packaging interactions)
Other Staff	José Maria Lagarón (Polymers; Packaging materials, Food packaging interactions) María Jose Ocio (Food Microbiology, Food packaging interactions)
Telephone	+34 96 39 00 022
Fax	+ 34 96 36 36 301
email	rcatala@iata.csic.es
	rgavara@iata.csic.es
Web	www.iata.csic.es (opens in a new window)
	The Institute of Agrochemistry and Food Technology (IATA) is a research center belonging to the Spanish Council for Scientific Research (CSIC). [http://www.csic.es/] IATA objectives are basic and oriented scientific research in the Food Science and Technology area. These objectives are supplemented with activities of technological support to the industry, and postgraduate and lifelong education. The institute is organized in three departments (Food Preservation and Quality, Food Science and Food Biotechnology) each one of them with some thematic laboratories. The people workforce at IATA is about 200 (45 belonging to the scientific staff ,14 postdoctoral contracted scientists, 51 doctoral scholarship holders, 13 technicians, and the remainder technical and administrative personnel). Work related with packaging is developed at the Packaging Laboratory of the Department of Food Preservation and Quality. Research areas include the study of packaging material/food product interactions and the development of new materials and technologies for food packaging.