Max Rubner-Institut
Federal Research Institute of Nutrition and Food
Can functional food come up to the expectations? Is the pollution of fish and meat decreasing or increasing? And how the quality of meat, fish, fats and oils, cereals, fruit and vegetables can further be improved and sustainably secured? 200 scientists at the presently five - in future four - locations of the Max Rubner-Institut (MRI) research on these and many other topics around nutrition and food.
Max Rubner-Institut, the Federal Research Institute of Nutrition and Food, was founded on 1 January 2008. Its research focus is health and consumer protection in the nutrition sector. Important research fields are the determination and nutritional assessment of health relevant food ingredients, the investigation of careful and resource-preserving procedures of processing, the quality assurance of vegetable and animal food as well as the analysis of sociological parameters of nutrition and the improvement of nutrition information.
The predecessor, the Federal Research Center of Nutrition and Food (BfEL), was founded in 2004 by merging the federal research centres (dairy research/Kiel, meat research/Kulmbach, cereal, potatoe and lipid research/Detmold and Münster, nutrition research/Karlsruhe and part of the Institute for Fishery Technology and Fish Quality in Hamburg). The head office of Max Rubner-Institut is in Karlsruhe, further locations are in Kiel, Detmold and Kulmbach.
Organizational structure of MRI
The current departments of MRI:
Location Karlsruhe
- Physiology and Biochemistry of Nutrition
- Nutritional Behaviour
- Food and Bio Process Engineering
- Safety and Quality of Fruit and Vegetables
Location Kiel
- Microbiology and Biotechnology
- Safety and Quality of Milk and Fish Products
Location Detmold
- Safety and Quality of Cereals
Location Kulmbach
- Safety and Quality of Meat