The summary document of the moderated e-mail conference entitled "Biotechnology applications in food processing: can developing countries benefit?", which was hosted by the FAO Biotechnology Forum from 14 June to 15 July 2004, has now been published. This 9-page document aims to provide a summary of the main issues that were discussed i.e. the importance and diversity of fermented products; control and variable quality of traditional fermentation; documenting information about traditional fermented food; scaling up production of traditional fermented foods; appropriateness of individual biotechnologies; education and capacity building; food safety and human health; intellectual property rights and traditional knowledge. See http://www.fao.org/biotech/logs/C11/summary.htm or contact [email protected] to request a copy.

11/09/2005