Advancing Food and Beverage Science and Sustainability

Fanshawe College’s Centre for Applied Research and Innovation in Biotechnology (CARIB) is a collaborative hub for industry-led research in food and beverage science, innovation and processing.

Through its work, CARIB accelerates new product development, encourages knowledge sharing and technology transfer in the food and beverage sector and promotes the development of a network within the industry.

CARIB supports the bioeconomy by working on projects to reduce waste along the food production supply chain and provide solutions to sectoral challenges related to product development, process optimization and technology adoption in agriculture.

CARIB answers the need to produce more nutritious food and beverage products while reducing environmental impact. This includes research in cannabis processing through our cannabis research licence.
 

CARIB Tour

Explore the CARIB Facility

Cannabis Applied Science Students in the CARIB lab
Booch research

Equipment

  • Plant tissue culture incubator 
  • Benchtop Vortex Centrifuge 
  • Biosafety/cell culture cabinet 
  • Light Microscope  
  • 5110 ICP-OES, *vertical dual view  model  
  • Nano DeBEE 45-4 Ultra-High  Pressure Homogenizer  
  • CFX96 Optical Reaction Module  for Real-Time PCR  
  • NGC Discovery Pro  
  • Chromatography System  
  • FlashPure EcoFlex 
  • B-290 Spray Dryer  
  • Flash Chromatography 
  • 40L Fermentation Station
  • Encapsulator B-395 Pro  
  • Eppendorf BioFlo 120  
  • Bioreactor/bioprocessor 
  • General-Purpose Refrigerator 
  • General-Purpose Freezer 
  • NanoDrop One Microvolume UV VIS Spectrophotometer 
  • Norogard Seed Coater  
  • CO2 bioextraction 
  • Benchtop oven  
  •  -80°C freezer  
  • MaxQTM 2000 Benchtop Orbital  Shaker  
  • MaxQ H P Incubated and  Refrigerated Console Shakers 
  • Rotovap 
  • Centrifuge  
  • MaxQ 5000 Floor-Model Shakers 
  • BioTek Cytation 5  
  • BioTek Epoch Spectrometer  
  • Reverse osmosis/EMD millipore water system
  • Elix Advantage 10  Fisher  
  • Benchtop heated stir plates  
  • m-VROCTM Viscometer  
  • GC-MS  
  • VELP oxidative shelf life  
  • Bomb Calorimeter  
  • Biochamber (plant growth  chamber)  
  • Agilent H PLC System

  

View the CARIB Fact Sheet

Explore our Case Studies

R&D
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What Do T- Shirts and Kombucha Have in Common?
This project transforms 100% cotton waste into glucose for fermentation, promoting sustainability and positioning Fanshawe College as a leader in textile waste innovation.
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Enhancing the Reach of the Community Fridge
Fanshawe College partnered with London Community Fridge to enhance operations and improve food accessibility for those facing food insecurity.
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Shred Machines
Closed-loop Plastic Recycling
Fanshawe College’s St. Thomas/Elgin campus launched a closed-loop plastic recycling program to turn waste into useful products.
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Exchange Brewery location
The Exchange Brewery
The Exchange Brewery recently developed a new hop seltzer beverage. With Fanshawe's expertise, both refrigerated and unrefrigerated analysis of their product was conducted over a 12-month period to determine the presence of any microorganisms or contaminants.
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