Respect for your privacy is our priority

The cookie is a small information file stored in your browser each time you visit our web page.

Cookies are useful because they record the history of your activity on our web page. Thus, when you return to the page, it identifies you and configures its content based on your browsing habits, your identity and your preferences.

You may accept cookies or refuse, block or delete cookies, at your convenience. To do this, you can choose from one of the options available on this window or even and if necessary, by configuring your browser.

If you refuse cookies, we can not guarantee the proper functioning of the various features of our web page.

For more information, please read the COOKIES INFORMATION section on our web page.


Directory

SSICA


Stazione Sperimentale per l'Industria delle Conserve Alimentari - Fondazione di Ricerca



Information
Sector
Research organisation

Categories & Products
  • Research & Development
Contact details
Viale F. Tanara 31/a
43121, Parma - Emilia Romagna
Italy

+390521795257
+390521771829
Contact name : Luca Sandei
Contact email : Click to see email address
Description
SSICA is an applied and experimental research body founded as a Public Body in 1922 with Royal Decree no. 1396 of 2 July, with the purpose of improving the quality and safety standards of products along the entire supply chain.
The Experimental Station for the Food Preserving Industry (SSICA) aims to promote the technical and technological progress of the Italian food-preserving industry for the sectors of fruits, vegetables, meat and fish products, through its activities of research, consultancy, training and dissemination of information. Thanks to its specialized staff and cutting-edge laboratories, SSICA is one of the most important applied research bodies in the preserved food sector in Europe and in the world, and it takes part in national and international research projects.
SSICA has various departments specific to the different product sectors, as well as departments and laboratories in charge of more general activities; it has equipment and know-how aimed at experimenting with new products, new processing and preservation procedures, analyzing possible economic and social impact.

 
In the news

Research: a comparison of commercial tomato products and patented tomato extract

24/11/2023
Platelet hyperactivity: A comparison of water-soluble, bioactive compound levels in commercial tomato products and water-soluble tomato...
See details

Antiplatelet health effects of tomato products

04/10/2023
The ongoing collaboration between the Tomato Foundation and SSICA is now publishing important new scientific papers, based on the positive data...
See details

Obituary: Carlo Leoni

06/05/2022
Dott. Carlo Leoni died on Thursday 5 May 2022 in Langhirano (Parma) after a short hospitalization following a sudden cerebral hemorrhage. He would...
See details

Food fraud: Scientists develop \'low-cost\' country of origin detection method

14/12/2021
Scientists develop a cheaper, quicker way to determine produce country of origin A model that can be used to determine the origin of food in...
See details

Webinar: Tomato Products, Blood Health and Labelling

09/03/2021
Tomato News hosted a Tomato Foundation webinar on the 25th February, providing a complete update on the tomato products sample study carried...
See details

Potential for four EFSA health claims for tomato products

17/12/2020
Historic research delivers 4 x EFSA health claims for tomato products and a fifth on its way. An early festive gift to tomato lovers...
See details

Southern Italy: \"the harvest will start with or without an advance decision on prices\"

26/06/2020
With a price proposal of EUR 100 /mT for round tomatoes and EUR 110 /mT for oblong ones, manufacturers in the tomato processing sector opened the...
See details

Publication: Tomato Chemistry, Industrial Processing and Product Development

02/10/2019
Tomato is one of the most widespread horticultural species in the world. Used in a wide and diverse range of forms, from being suitable for...
See details

Valorisation of by-products: Agrimax and ECOAT projects

02/07/2019
17 million Euros for the development of bio-lacquer The Experimental Station for the Food Preserving Industry (SSICA) supplies suitable...
See details

SSICA PROCESSING TOMATO TOPICS AND STRATEGIES

17/05/2019
 Luca Sandei, Carlotta Stingone, Rosanna Vitelli  SSICA – Research Foundation   Parma – Italy  ...
See details

The Tomato Foundation study begins

11/03/2019
The Tomato Foundation is announcing the start of The Tomato Product Bioactive Qualification and Quantification sample study, which will...
See details

Publication: Tomato Chemistry, Industrial Processing and Product Development

08/02/2019
Editor: Sebastiano Porretta, SSICA (Experimental Station for the Food Preserving Industry, Italy)   Tomato is one of the most widespread...
See details
Location
Supporting partners
Featured company
CFT S.p.A
Most popular news
Featured event
15th World Processing Tomato Congress and 17th ISHS Symposium on Processing Tomato
Our supporting partners
immediate bitwave Library Z-Library