{"id":5121,"date":"2026-05-13T10:10:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T10:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cognitionconferences.com\/aquaculture\/?post_type=committee&#038;p=5121"},"modified":"2026-05-13T10:10:00","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T10:10:00","slug":"willy-verstraete","status":"publish","type":"committee","link":"https:\/\/cognitionconferences.com\/aquaculture\/committee\/willy-verstraete\/","title":{"rendered":"Willy Verstraete"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"member8470\" class=\"modal fade show\" role=\"dialog\" aria-modal=\"true\">\n<div class=\"modal-dialog\">\n<div class=\"modal-content\">\n<div class=\"modal-body\">\n<p>Microbial biomes ,ie microbes working in organized evolving teams\u00a0\u00a0 , bring about\u00a0 all over in the biosphere ,\u00a0 well-organized , efficient and precise bioconversions .We make use of some of\u00a0 them to grow crops ,to upgrade the plant products\u00a0 to feeds and foods , to digest the latter and to valorize waste streams .Plenty of \u2018conventional\u2019 production routes and products\u00a0 have demonstrated that this can be done in a safe way. Yet, in the European Union , the concepts of \u2018novel foods \u2018 and \u2018precision fermentation\u2019 offer little or no perspective to open new roads of investment\u00a0 for powerful\u00a0 microbiomes\u00a0 . We argue that in terms of sustainability , the misunderstanding of the safety issues in relation to microbial biomes needs to be adjusted .Outside the EU , one should certainly not hesitate to implement and accept novel\u00a0 potentialities of \u2018mixed microbial\u00a0 cultures\u2019 .<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":5122,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"class_list":["post-5121","committee","type-committee","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Willy Verstraete | Ghent University | Belgium<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Microbial biomes ,ie microbes working in organized evolving teams\u00a0\u00a0 , bring about\u00a0 all over in the biosphere ,\u00a0 well-organized , efficient and precise bioconversions .\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, 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