The International Scientific Conference FOOD INDUSTRY BY-PRODUCTS organized by the Faculty of Food Technology, University Josip Juraj Strossmayer in Osijek, The Polytechnic of Po\u017eega, Association for Nutrition and Dietetics “Food to Health” (BiH), Public Institution “Nature park\u201c Kopa\u010dki rit \u201dand European Hygienic Engineering & Design Group – EHEDG (Germany) was held on 26 June in Kopa\u010dki Rit.
\nThe Conference, the publication of the Book of Abstracts and the promo-materials were funded by the Croatian Science Foundation within the project “Application of innovative techniques for extraction of bioactive components from plant by-products” (UIP-2017-05-9909). Although held for the first time, this conference proved to be very interesting to the scientific community as well as industry and general aduience, and it was concluded that it should continue to be held every year.<\/p>\n
The scientific programme of the Congress included 11 invited lectures and presentations of the book ” Some possibilities for utilization of food industry by-products 2″ . Lecture entitled “Application of innovative techniques for extraction of bioactive components from plant by-products” was given by Marija Bano\u017ei\u0107 in the name of author group (Krunoslav Aladi\u0107, Ines Banjari, Silvija \u0160afranko, Nika Pavlovi\u0107, Jelena Vladi\u0107, Senka Vidovi\u0107, Stela Joki\u0107- entire ByProExtract Team. During the presentation, the overall results of the project as well as future activities were presented.<\/p>\n\n