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Fruit plant gets $1 million loan Feds fund solvent-free extraction process


by DAVID SCHMIDT


DELTA – What started as a bench-top experiment at the Summerland Research and Development Centre by


internationally-


renowned food scientist Dr. Joe Mazza has become a multi-million dollar phytonutrient extraction business for Mazza Innovation. On January 17, Delta MP and federal Minister of Sport and Persons with Disabilities Carla Qualtrough was at Mazza’s 36,000-square- foot production facility in Delta to give the company a $1.1 million repayable loan from the Agriculture and Agri- Food Canada Agri- Innovation program. The funding builds on a previous $300,000 federal investment Mazza Innovation received to develop a water-based method of extracting


phytonutrients from plants.


foods, dietary supplements and beauty products.


Mazza president Benjamin Lightburn notes most phytonutrients are currently extracted from fruit byproducts using “industrial solvents in questionable manufacturing practices.”


McGill University Ph.D. student Viviane Bélair shows two of the fruit extracts being produced at Mazza Innovations in Delta. DAVID SCHMIDT PHOTO


“In just five years, Mazza Innovation has taken science from the lab and turned it into a commerciallyviable product,” Qualtrough said, noting the investment will allow the company to expand its production facility.


“This is good news for farmers, the economy and consumers,” she stated.


Phytonutrients are in high demand around the world as ingredients in juices, functional


Mazza’s patented Phyto-Clean process replaces those solvents with water, using temperature and high- pressure to mimic the action of the solvents, making the process much cleaner and safer. Mazza currently has one pilot-scale and one commercial-scale extractor. The extractor runs 24 hours a day, producing extracts on a fee basis for fruit and juice companies as well as its own line of extracts from fruit byproducts purchased on the open market. Lightburn says the first thing the company will add with the funding is a dryer. “Right now, we send


our liquid extracts to California for drying. Having our own dryer will reduce the time to produce an extract from one to two months to one to two days and increase our margins by 30% to 40%.”


Eventually, the company expects to add up to five more extraction units, potentially expanding its production six-fold and increasing its workforce to over 30.


COUNTRY LIFE IN BC • FEBRUARY 2017 Big picture, big change by DAVID SCHMIDT


ABBOTSFORD – Asking government to describe agriculture is like asking a group of blind men to describe an elephant, says Catalyst Agri-Innovation Society president Chris Bush.


Each ministry impacting or impacted by agriculture describes it differently. To Energy, agriculture is a source, a supply chain and an energy wild card. To Jobs, Tourism and Skills Training, agriculture is a shopping mall which will look radically different in five to 10 years. To Finance, it is a crane to pluck jobs and revenue. To


Technology, Innovation and Citizens Services, agriculture is a theme park full of exciting new rides. To Environment, agriculture is a tornado or a wrecking ball.


“We look at food, energy and water separately and lose the symbiosis,” Bush told a well-attended meeting of the Canadian Association of Farm Advisors, Fraser Valley chapter, in Abbotsford, November 24.


Saying “our challenge is the lack of seeing the bigger picture,” Bush called on those involved in agriculture to “bring the ministries together to work


with agriculture” to find solutions to the challenges of producing more food for a growing world


population in a changing climate and without producing more waste. “There’s no waste; there’s just product without a technology,” he insists. For the past decade, Bush has been working to develop that technology. He built the first


agricultural biodigester in BC on Sumas Prairie. More recently, he has been working with the Keulen family of Seabreeze Farm in Delta and Trident Technologies of Abbotsford to build a digester on a working farm and develop technology to remove nutrients from the digestate and turn it into a useable, saleable product. “We not only have to be able to show a company how to reduce its


environmental impacts but still make money,” he says. Bush is currently


championing duckweed production, saying it has the potential to solve many issues.


“It can produce 100 times as much protein as corn or soy and can be grown in a closed


environment so there are no environmental losses. It is the future of zero-waste agriculture.”


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