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Edy Sousa de Brito
Summary
Dr. Edy Brito is currently a researcher at Embrapa Alimentos e Território and permanent professor at the Graduate Program in Chemical Engineering at the Federal University of Ceará (PGEQ-UFC).
His research is directed towards increasing the sustainability of small scale agro-industrial processing by observing the principles of the Sustainable Development Goals. The research actions take place in three lines: a) Define how food processing, mainly non-conventional methods, affect the composition; b) valorization of agro-industry residues, through sequential extractions of bioactive compounds; and c) Definition of chromatographic parameters for the preparative scale isolation of bioactive compounds. The main processes and methodologies employed are: ultrasound, extraction with pressurized liquid, UHT, HTST, plasma, ozone, multivariate statistics, chromatography, spectroscopy (NMR); and spectrometry (MS).
Dr. Brito has been active in collegiate bodies such as: Internal Technical Committee (Embrapa), FUNCAP advisory committees (Innovation; Agricultural and Veterinary Sciences); and Embrapa's Portfolio Management Committee (Valuation of Fruticulture, Bioactives; and Food, Nutrition and Health). He also participated in the setting up and management of Embrapa's Multi-user Laboratory of Chemistry of Natural Products.
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