“FOOD SAFETY” LABORATORY NAMED AFTER AZIZ SANJAR
UNEC SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH CENTERS| Address: Baku, Murtuza Muxtarov, 194 (the III branch, room 429) e-mail: [email protected] |
ABOUT US:
UNEC Food Safety Laboratory named after Nobel laureate Aziz Sanjar was established based on Decision No. 159 adopted by the Scientific Council of Azerbaijan State University of Economics dated May 21, 2018, and the order of UNEC Rector No. 1005/3/2018. The laboratory was inaugurated on December 6, 2021, by Professor Aziz Sanjar, winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry at the Azerbaijan State University of Economics (UNEC).
Our mission
Our laboratory equipped with modern technologies and equipment operates under the department of engineering and applied sciences. Currently, in the laboratory, scientific-practical investigations, research and expertise, technical chemical control of plant and animal food products according to the relevant quality standards, as well as safety are investigated based on the training and curriculum of undergraduate and master’s level students together with professional young lab-researchers and teaching staff.
These lab analyses are listed in the following order:
- Moisture analysis
- Density of various liquid and solid products
- Active acidity determination analyses
- Ash determination analyses
- Chemical analyses
- Physical analyses
- Vitamin analyses
- Determination of proteins
- Determination of carbohydrates
- Determination of amino acids
- Spectrophotometer analyses
- Refinement processes
- Microbiological analyses etc. processes of assessing compliance with such requirements are carried out.
Our goals
In the near future, proposals, normative-legal acts, methodical materials will be developed in the direction of improving the legislation in the field of food, scientific and practical justification of the reforms in the field of food technology will be carried out. Measures are also being taken to create a research centre for master’s and doctoral candidates to conduct their studies at our laboratory.
Laboratory supplies
There are devices and reactive equipped with the latest technological equipment for food quality analysis.
Members:
– Assoc. Santa Robert – Director of the Institute of Engineering Sciences, University of Dunaújváros, Hungary (Dunaújváros/Hungary)
– Hajiyeva Sona Uzeyir – doctoral student of the University of Bologna, Italy, majoring in food biotechnology and food sciences (Bologna/Italy)
